Love the “easy to select for copy and paste” as a usability requirement.

Note that the standard base32 rfc encoding does not sort the same as the underlying data, but the hex encoding does! (base32.HexEncoding).

Reddit uses base36 for similar purposes.

So kinda like ULIDs (except when not using the time based generating algorithm) and using standard-base32 instead of Crockford's base 32?

I'd love to use this instead of UUIDs. Is there an easy to install PostgreSQL extension?