The One Where I Abandon UUID Identifiers

2025-05-20

I stumbled across a great T3 video about avoiding UUIDs as identifiers for applications (a common practice to prevent exposing sequential database IDs) just in time, as I’m only a couple thousand lines into implementing something where I’d been planning on using them.

Patronage in the Modern Era

2013-05-16

Once upon a time, wealthy patrons were how the arts and sciences got their work done. Jack Conte is taking a stab at reviving the practice, with a modern crowd-funding approach.