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 250: Primogeniture

    A large LED sign put up by the police that states 'ITS AN OFFENCE TO SUPPORT A PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION'

    A week of close milestones, completing games, starting new games, working out inheritance, new gyms, lots of drinks, a large protest, and work sucking less. Read Week 250: Primogeniture.

  2. Week 249: Herd Mentality

    A week of nice lunches, great BBQ food, curdled cocktails, following the herd, bottomless brunches, and some excellent RPGing. Read Week 249: Herd Mentality.

  3. Week 248: Hail Mary

    A week of massive journeys, grateful and friendly cats, a very quiet week, birthday drinks, and trying to read some more. Read Week 248: Hail Mary.

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.