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 216: Not Austria

    A slightly naff Christmas decoration I made by cutting out snowflakes from coloured paper

    A week of cancelled trips, feeling unfestive, Christmas films, Whisky Macs, being waited on, craft rooms, Muppets, and a couple of Jägerbombs. Read Week 216: Not Austria.

  2. Week 215: Hot Frosty

    A week of leaving drinks, heading into Christmas, great new Christmas films, escape rooms, Christmas pizza, and bad ankles. Read Week 215: Hot Frosty.

  3. Week 214: Cult of the Lamb

    A week of not being a millionaire, accidental working, more Factorio, long flat walks, fun co-op games, cult building, and exhausting shopping trips. Read Week 214: Cult of the Lamb.

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.