Making Beautiful API Keys
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A new open-source package called uuidkey allows developers to create visually appealing API keys by encoding UUIDs into human-readable formats. The package uses UUIDv7 as a base, encodes it with Crockford Base32, and adds dashes for aesthetics, resulting in 31-character keys that are secure, unique, sortable, and performant in databases.
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