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 shandies in the sun, client-side metrics, sick grandmas, hospital visits, cancelled plans, a lot of DIY, and far too many baked beans. Read Week 230: Beanz.
A week of fun hack days, writing PHP, sickness in the house, sickness in the family, building museums together, and new cat games. Read Week 229: Two Point Museum.
A week of excellent pancakes, brass bands playing pop-punk, being a chauffeur, great new team members, and doing work I don't much care for. Read Week 228: Old Dirty Brasstards.
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.
