A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

/dev

People have been saying we should stop using UUIDs for years, but they’ve also said we should stop eating fast food.

lol. have seen these two articles below thrown around quite a bit but yeah i'm fine to stick with UUIDs for now 🤷‍♂️

Writer. Building @pinatacloud. Tinkering with a Farcaster native alternative to GoodReads: https://readcast.xyz \ https://polluterofminds.com

lol. have seen these two articles below thrown around quite a bit but yeah i'm fine to stick with UUIDs for now 🤷‍♂️ 

https://planetscale.com/blog/the-problem-with-using-a-uuid-primary-key-in-mysql

https://www.unkey.com/blog/uuid-ux

building products /neynar, hacking /farhack, yapping /dylan | dylansteck.com

I’m stuck in 1999 using autoincrementing integers 🙈

Google and Meta can use something else. Imma use uuids