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Something I saw a longtime ago was hashing UUIDs into a RGB value and then colouring the background of the cell (at least when viewing in a DB IDE). That way you can quickly at a glance tell if it's worth going over character by character.

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Holy crap this is brilliant. I'd just change the text color of the uuid itself though - no need to change the background(although you'd need to make sure that the hash function avoided your existing background color to maintain a high enough contrast ratio for readability).

I want this as a vscode extension.

Or maybe as a terminal plugin or something? Is that possible? Could tmux do it maybe?

Wow I really love that idea. Next time I get stuck on a fix tinkering with my setup I'm going to check this out.

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