Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

Missing: EOL for 32-bit time_t is Jan. 19, 2038.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Hey, this seems like a pretty useful website, one quick comment is that it does not seem to be easily usable by colorblind people. Almost 10% of males are red-green colorblind, so while normal people can quickly scan through the lists using color, colorblind people have to manually read each 'Ends in ...' or 'Ended ...'.

Not a huge issue in this case since generally you would lookup your product on the left side of the table and then look at a single cell on the right side, but it can't hurt to switch to an alternative color scheme - blue + olivegreen is one that I've seen pretty often.

I like it!

It would be nice to have (you knew this was coming, yes?) an API, whereby one could programmatically request, say,

https://endoflife.date/api/os/ubuntu/16.04

(Haven't thought through the semantics.)

Digression alert. I've been thinking of a multi-OS package analysis database that I wish existed. The idea being, a database of information on packages to answer questions like:

- Which packages of what OSes include the file path /usr/share/whatever/some/file.name?

- Which packages of what OSes include the file with this hash, and where does it install?

- On what date was this revision of that file included in this package?

And so on. This idea doesn't quite fit in to that model, but it is along the lines I'm thinking - that conveniently organized metadata across distros could be very useful in a number of ways. In particular, I've had each of those questions above; they can be surprisingly time consuming to answer. More generally, there's interesting research to do there with security implications, and I suspect there's interesting stuff to do with it that I haven't thought of yet.

this is unfair because it, for a moment, got me excited that there was an end of life date for windows in general ;)