[mdaniel]

how many billions of dollars and they still host their blog on a nagware site SMH It's not like moving would be high drama since they already have a custom domain for it

https://scribe.rip/introducing-safetest-a-novel-approach-to-...

[MajimasEyepatch]

From the Hacker News Guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[mdaniel]

it also has no license file, with https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/package.json#L... saying "MIT" but as far as I know it says that a lot and I doubt gravely that any court would consider a json file a legitimate license declaration

[kolodny]

Sorry about that. I just added an official LICENSE file

https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/LICENSE

[joks]

Is hitting the (x) on the banner that difficult?

[mdaniel]

Is having nagware for another company a good look for an engineering blog?

> How we GraphQL all the things, after this brief message from our ... sponsor?

[phantomathkg]

Not OP, but apparently many companies still hosted their engineering blog on medium. So the answer to your question could be, yes and no, it depends.

Pinterest: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering Workable: https://engineering.workable.com/ Skyscanner: https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng Agoda: https://medium.com/@agoda.eng