@alexjamesmalcolm/human-readable-ids v1.0.12

human-readable-ids

Use JavaScript to generate human-readable ids from a list of animals and adjectives.

ids are in the format of adjective-animal-## such as:

• silly-goose-37
• quick-cobra-15
• tricky-chicken-23
• brave-ladybug-90

My problem is that I often want ids that I can type without having to look at twice (nor telling someone else twice). I should be able to shout one of these ids across the room to a coworker or spouse and have them be able to enter it without any confusion.

Currently the id space is 12,520,970 ids (539 adjectives 230 animals 101 numbers).

The goal is to have several billion possible combinations by adding more words as well as expanding the ids to have verbs and adverbs. For a larger address space now, consider:

• Human Readable IDs for Node.js and Browser: https://github.com/linus/greg/
• Human Readable IDs for Java: https://github.com/PerWiklander/IdentifierSentence
• Human Readable IDs for Python: https://gist.github.com/4447660

All of these also have the benefit of bi-directional conversion, but not all of them have words which are easy to pronounce and spell.

Contributing

Please add more words that fit these criteria

• Easy-to-spell - such that even my redneck dad can manage
• Phonetically distinct - no words like bore/boar
• Few syllables
• Well-known

All of the words are sorted alphabetically (sort -u) and stored in the *.txt files. The pre-publish script outputs the formatted javascript.

Bad Examples

• wednesday, hamster, ostrich (difficult to spell)
• grey, gray, bore, boar (two ways of spelling the same word or sound)
• prawn (not well-known)

Resources

Add more words and strategies from

• http://blog.asana.com/2011/09/6-sad-squid-snuggle-softly/
• The Dolch List http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch-words-all.html
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_English_alphabetical_wordlist
• https://github.com/zacharyvoase/humanhash
• https://gist.github.com/ucnv/1121015
• https://gist.github.com/vikhyat/105610
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_1000_basic_words
• http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adverbs/list-of-100-adverbs.html

TODO

Achieve 1 trillion ids with a combination such as

number adjective noun verb adverb

42-red-foxes-run-quickly

And allow choosing various formats based on the desired number of ids.

• adjective noun number
• number adjective noun verb