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toddcookeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: VT, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: AWS, Python, Typescript

Résumé/CV: https://toddcookevt.com/Todd_Cooke_Resume.pdf

Email: todd@toddcookevt.com

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Developer tooling, App Dev

toddcookeon Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons

Link to the repo 404s https://www.flickr.org/tools/flickypedia/about/ https://github.com/Flickr-Foundation/flickypedia

toddcookeon Show HN: Name Checker – check your project name accross many sites

toddcookeon Show HN: FlagPalette – Flag Color Codes

Cool idea! How did you decide how to limit the colors for flags with many colors? For instance: https://flagpalette.com/kansas-flag-colors Kansas lists 5 colors but there are likely quite a few more.

toddcookeon Show HN: Did – Decentralized Public Information Network

Check out https://namechecker.vercel.app if you want to see if a project name has already been taken.

toddcookeon Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

Thanks! - just added GitLab support

toddcookeon Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

Should be fixed now. The GitHub endpoint for repos returns a list of possible matches and now they get filtered to fully equal the search input https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/e...

toddcookeon Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

Added - good suggestion!

toddcookeon Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

The code is here for those interested https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker

toddcookeon Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

Fixed - Thanks for pointing this out!

toddcookeon Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

Thanks! I hadn't considered folks exploring existing results for curiosity's sake, but that's a good point. I'll show taken domains and add links in an update.

toddcookeon Revanchism

I learned of this word while watching this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJI8XTa_DII

toddcookeon Ask HN: What prompted you to convert from non-vegetarian to vegetarian?

The documentary Meet Your Meat. It was hard to watch, but I'm glad I did. Haven't eaten meat in a decade and I won't ever again.

The hardest part was eating meals with others, as virtually every adult eats meat. I cut out meat cold turkey:) but there was for sure a period where I was tempted despite ethical concerns.