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Did Chrome update today?

10 points by markdodwell 13y ago

eulerphi 13y ago
Why?
- markdodwell 13y ago
  It is a good question.
cheeaun 13y ago
Would be better to know which channel of Chrome got updated (Dev, Beta, Stable?) and also for which platform (Android, iOS, Desktop browser, Chrome OS, Chromecast?). The site to check up on this http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/
- markdodwell 13y ago
  It checks that RSS feed, scoped to the Stable builds.
ck2 13y ago
This would be more helpful with a mini-month calendar to show what days in the past 30 it did update. I purposely disable the google updater and only turn it on when I am ready to update.
- markdodwell 13y ago
  Nice idea. Right now, it is just checking the Chrome release blog Stable channel to see if a release was pushed on the current day http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan....
jbrooksuk 13y ago
It says no, but my Chrome just updated... Are you taking into account timezones?
- RossM 13y ago
  The logic happens server-side but the user's timezone is posted to /content (so I'm guessing yes).
  - markdodwell 13y ago
    Yes, it should do :)
- markdodwell 13y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494320
jzzskijj 13y ago
How much VC$$$ was injected into this startup?
- markdodwell 13y ago
  Couldn't raise any money for it oddly...
mariozivic 13y ago
It just so happened I clicked on this link just a moment after clicking restart link on Chrome to let it update and it still said no?!
- markdodwell 13y ago
  It is just checking http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan... to see if there was a release 'today' (in theory, taking into account time zones). Does not check to see if you updated today, which is slightly diff.
bradleyland 13y ago
I really wish people would open source these types of projects. There's not much reason to protect the source code. The value is in the domain. This site already shows up in the 1st page results for the Google query 'did chrome update today' (duh!). If the source were available somewhere on Github/Bitbucket/whatever, people with feature suggestions could do the implementation and submit a pull request.
- markdodwell 13y ago
  Yes, good idea. I will open source it on Github.
- markdodwell 13y ago
  Here you go: https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut
markdodwell 13y ago
Source code: https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut

10 points by markdodwell 13y ago

eulerphi 13y ago

Why?

markdodwell 13y ago
It is a good question.

cheeaun 13y ago

Would be better to know which channel of Chrome got updated (Dev, Beta, Stable?) and also for which platform (Android, iOS, Desktop browser, Chrome OS, Chromecast?). The site to check up on this http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/

markdodwell 13y ago
It checks that RSS feed, scoped to the Stable builds.

ck2 13y ago

This would be more helpful with a mini-month calendar to show what days in the past 30 it did update. I purposely disable the google updater and only turn it on when I am ready to update.

markdodwell 13y ago
Nice idea. Right now, it is just checking the Chrome release blog Stable channel to see if a release was pushed on the current day http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan....

jbrooksuk 13y ago

It says no, but my Chrome just updated... Are you taking into account timezones?

RossM 13y ago
The logic happens server-side but the user's timezone is posted to /content (so I'm guessing yes).
- markdodwell 13y ago
  Yes, it should do :)
markdodwell 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494320

jzzskijj 13y ago

How much VC$$$ was injected into this startup?

markdodwell 13y ago
Couldn't raise any money for it oddly...

mariozivic 13y ago

It just so happened I clicked on this link just a moment after clicking restart link on Chrome to let it update and it still said no?!

markdodwell 13y ago
It is just checking http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan... to see if there was a release 'today' (in theory, taking into account time zones). Does not check to see if you updated today, which is slightly diff.

bradleyland 13y ago

I really wish people would open source these types of projects. There's not much reason to protect the source code. The value is in the domain. This site already shows up in the 1st page results for the Google query 'did chrome update today' (duh!). If the source were available somewhere on Github/Bitbucket/whatever, people with feature suggestions could do the implementation and submit a pull request.

markdodwell 13y ago
Yes, good idea. I will open source it on Github.
markdodwell 13y ago
Here you go: https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut

markdodwell 13y ago

Source code: https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut