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Hi! 😊

I'm Copeland — British-American software engineer and new resident of California!

I have a passion for software infrastructure, having started a home server in high school on a tiny 2GB Debian machine (which is back in use as a worker node!) and now Kubernetes on Ubuntu with the associated cloud-native FluxCD + Linkerd + PromStack etc setup.

Here's a fun video I made recently — an intense race to get a proxy server running to keep dog TV online! I figured out the process before shooting so it is a "real stunt"!

And a project I did based on the fantastic TV show Severance: wellness.copey.dev It's a parodic take on the "Wellness Sessions" the severed employees get at work, where they have no memory of their life on the outside — their "Outie". The site is static JS (now I appreciate why TypeScript exists) and uses a CRT-style WebGL shader. The speech was generated with a finetuned fish-speech model. I wanted to use a local Gemma2 LLM to generate the facts on the fly but they (ironically) weren't good enough!

Creating a natural language interface for a Kerbal Space Program drone:

Here's Claude connected to Flightradar24 ADS-B aircraft tracking data using Python and Siri: (It's a joke thumbnail and title, don't worry)

I experimented with Google Gemini image generation to create retro-futuristic liminal landscape "paintings" paired with the ethereal Windows 95 startup sound, using a Flask backend and some vibe-coded JS as a frontend gallery:

Outside of computers I'm a big cyclist — mountain biking and bike touring:

Last summer I rode 3030 miles from the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies to LA via Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and the Pacific Coast!

US cycling trip

I wrote a blog documenting the trip on biking.copey.dev

And made a video montage out of clips of the ride, set to U2:

And last year I rode 900 miles from London to Zürich via Paris, Dijon, Geneva and the Alps:

Europe cycling trip

POV descent down the stunning Furkapass, the location where they shot the Alpine shootout in the classic James Bond film Goldfinger:

Here's a couple aviation-related video edits I made in Resolve: