I reach for UUIDs constantly. And yet in most languages, there's no standard type for them. You use a string, or a [16]byte , or you add a UUID package and hope it plays nicely with whatever database or HTTP library you're already using. Postgres recently added UUIDv7 Postgres has had a native uuid column type for a long time. Recently they added native UUIDv7 support too. UUIDv7 is time-ordered,…
I’ve been trying to reconnect with old friends from high school lately, and honestly, it’s been… weird. Not bad, not heartbreaking, just this strange mix of nostalgia, curiosity, and a sort of quiet disappointment. In a way, the whole experience feels like a poetic paradox of modern communication: we have a thousand ways to reach anyone instantly, yet somehow we’re further apart than ever. As I’ve…