Rowan Manning

Hi đź‘‹ I'm Rowan Manning, a Senior Engineer at the Financial Times. I used to maintain Pa11y and write about web development, nowadays I mostly alternate between playing D&D or Minecraft.

Weeknotes

  1. Week 263: Dan and Jen

    A plastic roulette wheel with six random shots placed around the edge.

    A week of union organising, lots of office days, roundtables, roulette wheels, weddings, being sensible, a finale, and a lot of notes. Read Week 263: Dan and Jen.

  2. Week 262: Blue Prince

    Tom Barnaby, a fluffy black cat, lounging in a new bed which is attached to a radiator

    A week excellent puzzles, scribbling notes, murderous stage shows, curry, fireworks, union activity, delicious tinned fish, and a new bed. Read Week 262: Blue Prince.

  3. Week 261: Our Streets

    Large crowds gathered in Whitechapel holding anti-racist placards, watching Jeremy Corbyn deliver a speech

    A week of great TV, doing well at pub quizzes, counter-protesting, early Christmas activities, a new puzzle game, and switching my music streaming. Read Week 261: Our Streets.

Latest Posts

  1. Operational excellence: one year on

    A JSON-based error log containing app details (e.g. commit hash, name, Node.js version) and error information (e.g. message, code, stack trace, and related systems)

    A year ago we outlined some changes to the way we support FT.com. As well as giving an excellent overview of what our OpsCop team did, we set out some broad changes that we intended to make. Read about how FT.com support has changed over the year.

  2. Halving my GitHub Pages Build Time

    An explanation of how I halved my website's build/deploy process using a mix of actions optimisations and the new GitHub Pages Custom Actions beta. Read about the optimisations.