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   2025-04-01 19:03:03 by David Brownlee | Files touched by this commit (3)
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Add p5-Data-ULID 1.3

This is an implementation in Perl of the ULID identifier type
introduced by Alizain Feerasta. The original implementation (in
Javascript) can be found at https://github.com/alizain/ulid.

ULIDs have several advantages over UUIDs in many contexts. The
advantages include:

- Lexicographically sortable
- The canonical representation is shorter than UUID (26 vs 36
  characters)
- Case insensitve and safely chunkable.
- URL-safe
- Timestamp can always be easily extracted if so desired.
- Limited compatibility with UUIDs, since both are 128-bit formats.
  Some conversion back and forth is possible.

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