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It was for use by our paid customers in CI/CD. We did not want large companies to use it as is without a contract from us.

We moved our SDK off public npm onto a private registry we host.

Our customers mainly use Donobu's SDK to run their end-to-end tests in CI/CD, with AI self-healing and triage. It was unlicensed but on public npm on purpose, so `npm i` just worked.

NPM registry has had a rough year. When we looked at alternatives, we realized self-hosting packages is not that hard anymore. Our customers continue using `npm i`. They just add a .npmrc pointing at our registry; reusing their existing Donobu API key for auth was a nice bonus.

.npmrc was the only thing needed:

  @donobu:registry=https://api.donobu.com/npm/
  //api.donobu.com/npm/:_authToken=${DONOBU_API_KEY}

Under non-urgent cases this sometimes takes 3-4 months in the US every time I experience the need to "ask an MD"

I am really excited for this. Once going home with my family via Uber in SFO we realized on the freeway that our driver was high and driving at 80-85 mph.

It was a really scary experience and I couldn’t do much about it in the moment.

They need to make it eligible for Class Action lawsuits to be filed if these are ignored. I wrote a script to routinely test opt out on websites and was stunned to see almost 50% had it implemented incorrectly. This includes high-flying tech companies that went public recently.

Under California’s CCPA / CPRA, most enforcement power lies with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and the California Attorney General, not private individuals. This limits the actual downside to a company vs. an unbounded downside of class-action lawsuit threat.

Super cool! I wonder if it would bother pets

The reason isn't technical. This isn't implemented because the entire card-processing ecosystem is hooked on the chargeback fees (min $15 to $100). It starts becoming a lucrative revenue stream for Visa/Mastercard/Stripe/Adyen/WorldPay/Fiserv and the entire ecosystem.

Merchant's end up getting the short end of the stick in most cases.

It is quite popular in testing circles to write e2e tests that are easier to maintain. However, in practice I have found it to be quite useless due to the time it takes to write good page objects. QA teams usually rely on a complete POM before writing tests on it. I used to joke that by the time my team was done shipping a page object model, our product team would have changed the entire product again.

I used to be in-charge of homepage getting over 1.5M views a day. I would really be curious how this converts. I am assuming Posthog has a lot of metrics.

If I were to bet, while this is fun, it will be a disaster for conversions once the launch hype goes away.