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Articles like this need to have a date right around the title

Otherwise, you will be left scratching your head about the era the opinion is from.

Notably, the author has another post with a "recipe" to success (a recipe that they now believe to be outdated), again with no timestamp.

You can only figure out the date of that writing (2007) by looking at the comments

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From the footer of the article, before the comments:

> Posted by Charlie Stross at 16:10 on August 23, 2024

right, but my point was that you should need to do detective work to figure out the date of a post, especially when the title refers to a transition in time from one era to another

> footer of the blog post, where date is usually, has the date

> looking for the date of this text is detective work

indeed, readers are from different generation and expect different things.

Completely agree, but it's in the URL in a fairly nice form.

You can see it in the URL too.

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