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 210: Vitamin D

    Riley pulling himself up on the edge of the balcony to watch some fireworks.

    A week of surprise meeetings, leaving drinks, commiseratory drinks, after-work drinks, balcony drinks, housewarming drinks, dosing myself up, and a new board game. Read Week 210: Vitamin D.

  2. Week 209: Space Age

    One of Whitechapel's belligerent squirrels squaring up to me

    A week of long hours in the factory, other planets, new Whitechapel friends, building furniture, comedy with friends, and belligerent squirrels. Read Week 209: Space Age.

  3. Week 208: 100MB

    A week of many board games, vietnamese food, stand up comedy, an imminent game release, lazy holidays, and saving some space. Read Week 208: 100MB.

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.