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Marcus Coupland

Written by Marcus Coupland

Marcus Coupland

Notes on life, software, work, and the things I wanna do.

Latest issue 13 September 2026

Things I Wanna Do

I wanna do everything but that's impossible. Sometimes it's hard to even do one thing.

Past issues

Contacts and Calendar The search for the perfect Contacts/Calendar system is arduous. 28 Dec 2025

Christmas in Cyprus An incomplete tale of a British man's foray into a traditional Cypriot Christmas. 26 Dec 2025

Is Actual Budget actually better? In this piece of literary genius I recount my experience with Actual Budget and YNAB. With a surprise honourable mention you so totally won't believe at the end. Go on, read it! Number 3 will wow and super duper amaze you! 26 Nov 2025

Current Concerns A list of things I'm currently concerned with 22 Nov 2025

Starting Fresh A wild ride back in time! 22 Nov 2025

Sieve Oh I forgot about it again 14 Nov 2025

Deploy Joy Got myself a nice little system set up now to manage and deploy this static site. 13 Nov 2025

Start Somewhere We all have to, and I'm starting here. 12 Nov 2025

Rewriting This Site in PHP So I gave up on Svelte and TypeScript even though they're great. I just kept missing PHP and my familiarity with it. 7 Sep 2022

Writing a Deploy Script in TypeScript Disclaimer: This is not a tutorial, I am a PHP Developer, and I haven't worked with TypeScript or Node very much at all. 5 Sep 2022

An Actual Post (AKA The Real First Post) Yet another personal site/blog. I build one so frequently it's essentially a habit. 4 Sep 2022

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Notes on life, software, work, and the things I wanna do.