If you’ve been following this site and/or my posts on BlueSky, you’ve probably seen projects pop up with weird dates. The best example is my Door Handle Slammer Stopper - My Stupidest Useful 3D Print posted on 2024-11-20, but with a publish date of 2024-03-05, what’s up with that?
I’d like to treat this site as part-blog/part-portfolio. For the Slammer Stopper, I finalized the design in March, but didn’t write or post about it publicly until a couple days ago. Because I view my projects as portfolio artifacts, I’d like to keep the dates accurate to when they were actually completed. It gives me (and readers) a more-accurate timeline of what I’ve worked on and when.
I’ve played around with adding separating “publish date” and “project date”, but this adds a lot of confusion around what means what to readers and around how I should the posts. In the end, I’ve decided that its fine to “lose” the data as to when the article was published, because it has pretty limited value. The real value is the timeline and content itself.