Greg Egan on Nostr: When setting a default name for the PDFs that you're encouraging your customers to ...
When setting a default name for the PDFs that you're encouraging your customers to download for their records, try to aim for the Goldilocks zone that lies somewhere between Mercury ("getPDF.pdf" for every file) and the Oort Cloud ([64 hex digits guaranteed unique across the universe, and utterly meaningless to humans].pdf)
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2026-07-30 07:22:01 UTCEvent JSON
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