I've always thought it was underused in decentralized authentication spaces.
Ha! You can't tell me what to do!
GitHub bug reports on personal projects make me substantially revise upward my estimate of the proportion of programmers who are just greedy (in the regex sense) copy / pasters.
... "and revert back with the same"
my first thought was also "this is just another conspiracy to recruit humans to fuzz UID based systems with unicode" :D
The all alphanumeric characters based 1337 mode should be able to approach / overtake standard UUID character space given its inclusion of the characters G-Z, though might need to add to the words list and tweak minimum word size to do so.
Thank you for the feedback! I'll be adding documentation for each mode's count of potential variations to clarify.
[0] That was such a poorly preforming investment. At least I hit early on Bitcoin to make up for it.
... I appreciate this whole exchange, complete with emoji:)
That said, the project is great! I love such things:-)
[1] https://rob.conery.io/2014/05/28/a-better-id-generator-for-p...
> Generate cute UIDs, i.e. unique(ish) identifiers that are similar in appearance to UUIDs.
Ok - but what's the difference between them and UUIDs... What makes them "cute"?