repeatr

Repeatr: Reproducible, hermetic Computation. Provision containers from Content-Addressable snapshots; run using familiar containers (e.g. runc); store outputs in Content-Addressable form too! JSON API; connect your own pipelines! (Or, use github.com/polydawn/stellar for pipelines!)

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I wrote Yet Another UUID [1] for my own purposes recently as well. Mine's based on Firebase's style UIDs [2] -- they sort roughly chronologically, because operationally, I find…

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2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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I wrote Yet Another UUID [1] for my own purposes recently as well. Mine's based on Firebase's style UIDs [2] -- they sort roughly chronologically, because operationally, I find that irritates me less. Arbitrary choice? Entirely. Regrets? None. Do I recommend it for use? Also not at all. Unless you feel like it. It's fine. I guess. I've kind of given up on there being any purpose to a One True Spec for UUIDs. Count how many bits of entropy you want. Shove some CSPRNG into it. Call it a day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (This a fine implementation, fwiw. I only mean to share my honest question as to whether there's any real utility to UUIDs-as-a-library.) [1] https://github.com/polydawn/repeatr/blob/dd41ca72421a173b5aa... [2] https://www.firebase.com/blog/2015-02-11-firebase-unique-ide...

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