,"datePublished":"2012-09-30T23:48:21+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-06T01:20:40+00:00",
[Can someone explain the downvotes? I'd like to know if my information is incorrect.]
Someone may have taken your comment as a defense of the article not publishing year (which is a ridiculous defense) and hence the downvotes.
It is definitely really bad UX if you have to "view source" to find information.
It's also possibe to just go to some "unoptimized" part of the blog.
The whole wordpress theme seems to be trimmed to be "timeless", including URLs.
https://daedtech.com/?s=%22Rise+of+the+Expert+Beginner%22
shows: Sep 30, 2012, since it's feed by the same database.
WordPress dates are no authorative sourcem since they can by changed at any time to anything.
But the story has about a dozen submits including pre https times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
With the first one in april 2013, about half a year later.
As for the downvotes, I guess the nail that sticks up gets hammered down?
We might be able to guess the missing city via street name search but impossible for dates
As a counter-point, the best article on salary negotiation _ever written_ [0] has the timestamp in the URL, which undoubtedly dissuades people from reading, given that it was written eight years ago.
If a potential reader avoids the article because of it's age, they're poorer for it.
IMO the author is doing the world a favor by not time-stamping the article.
[0] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Then why does it have a day and month?
Posted on September 30, 2012 by Erik Dietrich
"Sep 30", this one says. Hmm… can't be 2019, because I read this years ago, I'm sure.
The only indicator of year I could find is that the comments to the article are 7 years old.