One more note: uuid is not easily copy-pastable, due to dash `-` in it. I prefer...

antifa · on Jan 21, 2023

If the goal is copy-pastable, why not base36 or base62?

yencabulator · on Jan 21, 2023

Because typing them or reading them back over the phone is much less human-friendly.

So far https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encod... has the best trade-offs I've ever seen.

(Though for encoding numbers, where small numbers deserve a shorter representation, Base58 can be nice too.. z-base-32's alphabet is still more user-friendly. https://github.com/tv42/base58 )

deepsun · on Jan 27, 2023

Base32 is already implemented in most stdlibs, and I'm lazy to write it myself :)