Beginner's Guide to Installing from Source (2015)

What do people use to check for updates when it comes to programs they installed manually / compiled from source instead of relying on their distro's repositories?

I made this for myself for this purpose: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater

(pretty chuffed about the MISC acronym btw :p )

I really wish this article was available in 1998, when I had no idea on how to install stuff in slackware 3.6.