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Agree about the date. Even saying the year is better than nothing.

In another of his articles he begins with "Stripe recently refreshed their website..." but we have no way of knowing what "recent" means. The article might be 10 years old. For someone focused on attention to detail, he has neglected the importance of date in context:

https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/attentiontodetail/str...

Sometimes it's okay not to mention date, such as a movie or book review. We know it was written some time after the book or movie was released - a date already known to reader.




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