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 year of two very sweet kittens, getting my reading ability back, still writing weeknotes, plans for my health, and thinking about the future of my work. Read Year 4: Lads.
A week of cooking heart-shaped food, rescuing cute robots, new subscription services, a request for recommendations, Q&A, US Politics, and replacing batteries in things that you're not supposed to. Read Week 225: Anonymous.
A week of small teams, getting things done, completing Factorio, proper pub trips, wholesome weekends, interesting talks, good food, and cozy TV Read Week 224: Galaxy of Fame.
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.
