Hi! π
I'm Copeland β 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 β 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 β 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 β 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!

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 ZΓΌrich via Paris, Dijon, Geneva and the Alps:

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: