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.
A week of snotty sickness, eating chillis again, terrible gut days, hygiene ratings, grandparents, incredible quiches, comedy shows, and too many plans. Read Week 281: Off Menu.
A week of migrating Node.js versions, using Node.js type stripping, fixing some slop, learning more Terraform, a fun bottomless brunch, a less fun hangover, and some excellent TV. Read Week 280: Stripping.
A week of divesting from US tech, racing horses, big migrations, bad markets, union rep training, my mental wellbeing, tomatoes, and the latest Bridgerton. Read Week 279: Economists Agree.
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.
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.
