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 206: Eve

    Tom Barnaby walking along the top of a tall wall, contemplating how he's gonna get down

    A week of slow work, pub crawls, pub quizzes, dinners and drinks, fantastic cocktails, reading good sci-fi, new board games, and an adventurous cat. Read Week 206: Eve.

  2. Week 205: The Tarn

    A view of the church and several houses in Lincou, pictured from the river

    A week of river living, quaint little villages, excellent food, kayaking, big bridges, dinosaurs, cuddly kittens, and an exciting new leak. Read Week 205: The Tarn.

  3. Week 204: Lincou

    A view down a dirt track weaving between hills, with part of a French château in the foreground

    A week of meeting cat sitters, time in Toulouse, excellent brunches, long drives on the right, cheese diets, and overdoing it on the wine. Read Week 204: Lincou.

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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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