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 220: Uncovered Coughing

    A map view of a large grid of factory components in Factorio

    A week of office trips, nasty coughs, cancelled plans, and large Factorio builds. Read Week 220: Uncovered Coughing.

  2. Week 219: January Dread

    Large waves crashing around the West Pier in Brighton

    A week of new years, little parties, stormy seas, years of weeknotes, being back at work, terrible escape rooms, and fairground games. Read Week 219: January Dread.

  3. Week 218: Tinsel Eating

    A week of many obligations, lots of cooking, cats being a pain, tinsel consumption, driving around, and being ready for a proper rest. Read Week 218: Tinsel Eating.

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.