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 248: Hail Mary

    A week of massive journeys, grateful and friendly cats, a very quiet week, birthday drinks, and trying to read some more. Read Week 248: Hail Mary.

  2. Week 247: Cambodia

    A silhouette of Angkor Wat against the night sky, a large temple with multiple spires

    A week of reunions, genocides, long hotel buses, sunrises, huge temples, heroic rats, and some time at the beach. Read Week 247: Cambodia.

  3. Week 246: Singapore

    Eight 'supertrees' against the night sky, large artificial trees towering above and adorned with many-coloured lights that highlight the foliage they're covered with

    A week of long flights, pool swims, indoor cloud forests, light shows, rollercoasters, food in Chinatown, fireworks, and a beautiful island. Read Week 246: Singapore.

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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.

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