Beautiful API Keys: The uuidkey Package
2025-01-10
AgentStation, aiming for improved developer experience, created the uuidkey Go package for generating aesthetically pleasing API keys. Leveraging UUIDv7, Crockford Base32 encoding, and strategically placed dashes, it produces sortable, performant, and visually appealing keys. The article details the rationale behind choosing UUIDv7 and Crockford Base32, explains the dash design, and provides usage instructions and benchmark results for the uuidkey package.
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