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 270: Christmas Nap

    A little black cat drinking from a commemorative Royal Marriage mug

    A week of being tired, multiple long drives, cat birthdays, Christmas Carols, vegetable prep, family visits, and new drinking vessels. Read Week 270: Christmas Nap.

  2. Week 269: Mile-Wide

    A week of doing very little, planning for Christmas, watching Die Hard, quiet weekends, shit TV, and a lot more D&D planning. Read Week 269: Mile-Wide.

  3. Week 268: Nobody Wants This

    A week of team lunches, more Christmas parties, lots of D&D planning, Champagne Shows in Birmingham, hungover train journeys, and a lazy TV binge. Read Week 268: Nobody Wants This.

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.