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ashid for CFML: time-sortable, prefixed IDs without a JAR

ashid for CFML: time-sortable, prefixed IDs without a JAR

I've been quietly tired of createUUID() for a while. It's fine for primary keys nobody ever looks at, but the moment an ID surfaces in a URL or a log line, opacity becomes a tax. You can't tell at a glance whether 7F3A1B2C-... belongs to a user account or a webhook event. You can't lexicographically sort by creation...

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Adobe ColdFusion, Lucee, and BoxLang

Created Feb 13, 2026

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