Did Chrome update today?

http://didchromeupdatetoday.com

by markdodwell • 13 years ago

10 18 13 years ago

didchromeupdatetoday.com

eulerphi• 13 years ago

Why?

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

It is a good question.

cheeaun• 13 years 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/

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

It checks that RSS feed, scoped to the Stable builds.

ck2• 13 years 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.

markdodwell10• 13 years 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-chan....

jbrooksuk• 13 years ago

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

RossM• 13 years ago

The logic happens server-side but the user's timezone is posted to /content (so I'm guessing yes).

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

Yes, it should do :)

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494320

jzzskijj• 13 years ago

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

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

Couldn't raise any money for it oddly...

mariozivic• 13 years 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?!

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

It is just checking 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• 13 years 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.

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

Yes, good idea. I will open source it on Github.

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

Here you go: https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut

markdodwell10• 13 years ago

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

Did Chrome update today?

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