Numeronyms are fun, but they have one major problem: namespace collision.

What is a11y? Is it accessibility? Associatively? Axiomatically? Autobiography?

This is obviously a problem that needs solving.

My solution? SHAsum hashing.

We can avoid the ambiguity of "a11y" with this unique, cryptographically sound alternative:

Accessibility? a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y

Axiomatically? a20c4bcee8f977a3f5a3b6b499d52d7dd32584771y

Simple, easy to visually distinguish, everyone wins.

@mhoye hashonyms. such a timesaver. and what a boon to clarity.
@kboyd
SHA1 is considered a bad idea, those should be SHA256, or for absolute certainty SHA512
@mhoye
@viq @kboyd @mhoye True! You never know when an adversary might invent a pair of English words with colliding SHA-1 digests and get them adopted into the standard lexicon just so they can do a rug-pull on you 20 years later.
@varx @viq @kboyd We need to start working on quantum-resistant hashonyms immediately.