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 244: Unsinging Sands

    A rectangular lighthouse on a rocky outcrop, surrounded by yellow sand and bright blue sea water

    A week of long hikes up big hills, views, bogs, pretty lighthouses, beautiful beaches, travelling, Baldur's Gate, Astronomy, and a lazy weekend. Read Week 244: Unsinging Sands.

  2. Week 243: Islay

    A view of the Lagavulin distillery from the coast, white brick buildings with a painted black sign and a bright red chimney

    A week of friendly islanders, beautiful coastlines, dolphin spotting, castle stays, a few wee drams, and a lot of distilleries. Read Week 243: Islay.

  3. Week 242: Pitbull

    A group of us all wearing bald caps and aviators. We're wearing white shirts with a black tie and we look like a crowd of Pitbulls

    A week of dressing up, excellent gigs, excitable crowds, playing Baldurs Gate, spending too much money on my hobbies, and a lovely day in the park. Read Week 242: Pitbull.

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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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