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 292: Fourteen-Hour Days

    A waterfall cascading down mossy rocks next to the ruins of a mill

    A week of working remotely, a ridiculous number of jobs, cleaning, lots of deliveries, moving vans, mouldy furniture, disgusting grout, steam cleaners, lovely neighbours, waterfalls, and a tap room. Read Week 292: Fourteen-Hour Days.

  2. Week 291: FrIKEA

    Two large black cats laying next to each other on a leather sofa, looking cute and sleepy

    A week of in-person boardgames, shooting the shit, union tables, Friday IKEA trips, plant balls, doubling up possessions, picnics in the park, and weeks in Derbyshire. Read Week 291: FrIKEA.

  3. Week 290: Catfishing

    A week of weirdness at work, union questions, new flyers, new fryers, retirement parties, life goals, abandoned tube stations, hot glue guns, and fun new games. Read Week 290: Catfishing.

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.