the original post wis this cool little algorithm someone came up with to create "Short friendly base32 slugs from time-stamps" (that sort in the same way as the timestamps they came from)

https://brandur.org/fragments/base32-slugs

A commenter pointed to the similar idea of #Hashids https://hashids.org/

and i, and others, have no clue what the point of those is. It seems like just mild obfuscation and ...shortening?

Can anyone explain the point of hashids?

Your preferred method for generating unique identifiers in a medium to large distributed system?

#uuid
#ULID
#snowflakeid
#hashids
#nanoid
#distsys

#Hashids with #Laravel.

You get Stripe-like URLs and no #UUID in the database.
https://julienbourdeau.com/laravel-hashid