At $35 this is a budget listing; the maths still has to work, and it works when the page is topical and the host is active.
The commercial value here is different from a general blog: a link from a technology title is usually read by people who will mention it somewhere else. That is why an article with a real number in it keeps returning value a year later, while a listicle about trends dies in the archive. Give the editor something they can cite.
techyam.com has 48 DR against an index median of 51, 554 monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $35 against $70. Where those three numbers point in different directions, the traffic figure is usually the honest one: it is what a publisher has to protect, and it is what decays first when a site starts selling too much inventory.
Expect editorial standards to be enforced on the structure as well as the tone: no thin affiliate comparisons, no recycled press copy, links that go somewhere the reader needs rather than somewhere you want. Sites with 554 monthly visits cannot survive publishing filler, so write for their reader first and your anchor second.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 45 DA and 554 monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.