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 309: Session 0

    A week of being back in the city, a short D&D session, trickery, meeting new people, D&D prep, housewarmings, jägerbombs, dinners, and an early night. Read Week 309: Session 0.

  2. Week 308: Stones

    Two black cats sat in exactly the same position next to each other on a windowsill, looking over their shoulders at the camera

    A week of intense scrubbing, grout paint, loud board games, tasting menus, drives up north, bed frames, new guests, multiple walks, a word-count milestone, and a lot of world-building. Read Week 308: Stones.

  3. Week 307: Weeding

    An etching of an unfortunate man being held in the stocks

    A week of reliability engineering, wood-panelled walls, smooth drives, weeding the garden, putting off painting, visiting car boots, and local food sampling. Read Week 307: Weeding.

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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.

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