[qntmfred]

any thoughts on uuidv7 vs ulid, nanoid, etc for url-safe encodings?

[nikisweeting]

ULID is the best balance imo, it's more compact, can be double clicked to select, and case-insensitive so it can be saved on macOS filesystems without conflicts.

Now someone should make a UUIDv7 -> ULID adapter lib that 1:1 translates UUIDv7 <-> ULID preserving all the timestamp resolution and randomness bits so we can use the db-level UUIDv7 support to store ULIDs.

[masklinn]

A uuid is a 128b number with a specific structure. You can encode them in base32 if you want, there is no need for any sort of conversion scheme.

[clintonb]

I prefer TypeID: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

[thewisenerd]

i guess that depends on what you mean by url-safe

uuidv7 (-) and nanoid (_-) have special characters which urlencode to themselves.

none are small enough that you want someone reading them over the phone; but from a character legibility, ulid makes more sense.