GUIDs Part 3: GUID one

The ultimate test to be sure you understand a concept is to try and teach it to someone. The way to understand a concept enough to teach it to someone is to implement it.

I didn’t exactly just sit down one afternoon and decide to write a few blog posts about GUIDs because I know everything about them. It actually all started with a few weeks earlier wanting to understand the mechanics behind the identifier.

1. First I did a bit of a Google - good luck jumping right into the spec!
2. Then once I had a high-level understanding I read the spec.
3. Then to make it all stick I implemented the spec.
4. Then wrapped it all up in a little website, guid.one - you know, just for fun.

There’s nothing groundbreaking here but hopefully it’s in a format that’s easy to understand so you know what’s going on with those little uniquer identifiers!