Todd Cooke

Castles of Burgundy Scorer

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:23:20 -0400

I’ve been playing a fun board game called Castles of Burgundy, but realized there wasn’t an existing score calculator app or site. I’ve used Claude to create a static React site to calculate final scores.

Check it out!

Name Checker

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 09:47:35 -0400

I just created a tool called Name Checker.

The idea is if you want to create a new project and don’t want to check all the places (npm, apt, GitHub) for a name collision, you can just use this tool instead.

I started working on this because I noticed on HN folks sometimes create a new company and SAAS and they didn’t notice that the name was already taken. I intentionally have not checked (the irony) to see if a tool like this exists, because it seems like with over 8 billion people on the planet there will always be someone that got there more quickly. That shouldn’t prevent me from making something even better, but it tends to discourage me from even starting. So… check, but don’t check :)

First of Many

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:14:45 -0400

I’ve heard recently that a good way to learn is to write, that writing forces you to think and organize your thoughts and to create new connections while contemplating what to write next.

It may have been the prevalence of screens in my last few years that convinced me that I could learn solely through passive consumption. Watching a video can be a good intro to a subject, but it’s no substitute for the slow and thoughtful act of writing and thinking.

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Here are the places you can find me on the internet:

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Modules I’ve put together to study a subject in depth: