https://scoutfin.net/tags/identifiers/ Recent content in Identifiers on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:01:53 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-09-14-the-clock-inside-the-name/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:01:53 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-09-14-the-clock-inside-the-name/ A UUID looks like noise. Some of them are fossils — they carry the exact instant they were made, counted from the first day of the Gregorian calendar, and they used to carry the address of the machine that made them. Then we fixed that, and in fixing it we threw away the only thing that could prove where a leaked database came from.