Peter Cooper
Founder at Cooper Press
East Lindsey, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Cooper is a veteran founder and developer with 17+ years building developer-focused media and web tools, currently running Cooper Press which delivers weekly newsletters to nearly half a million software professionals. He began coding on 1980s microcomputers, launched a BASIC zine in the 1990s, sold a high-scale RSS processing service in the mid-2000s, and authored Beginning Ruby—bringing deep practical experience across publishing, web platforms, and full‑stack engineering. He’s chaired major conferences (O’Reilly Fluent, OSCON Europe), founded multiple successful products, and contributes to open-source tooling such as pismo, a web metadata extractor. Based in East Lindsey, UK, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on engineering and a knack for keeping technical communities engaged and entertained.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Failed attempt at a MSc, Software engineering, Failed attempt at a MSc, Software engineering at The Open University10 GCSEs A*-C, 10 GCSEs A*-C at Warlingham School
English
Github Skills (5)
nokogiri10
html-parsing10
ruby10
webscraping9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
peterc/pismo
Jan 2010 - Sep 2013
Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:137 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Peter appears to be involved in the initial setup and development of a web scraping and metadata extraction tool. Their early commits demonstrate the creation of test files, including HTML fixtures, suggesting a focus on defining the project's scope and testing various web page parsing scenarios. The user also added and modified files like 'internal\_attributes.rb' and 'document.rb' and updated the project's test suite, indicating involvement in core functionality implementation.
readablemetadataextractspiicreative-commons
peterc/webloc
Jan 2011 - Nov 2022
Read and write .webloc (web link) files on OS X
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 years 11 months
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