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 298: Roof Cat

    A black cat stuck on a hot slate roof looking grumpy about it

    A week of pub quizzes, hot weeks, last-minute holiday, eating outdoors, cats in the garden, cats on a roof, steam cleaning, scrubbing, and wholesome local events. Read Week 298: Roof Cat.

  2. Week 297: Stanton Moor

    A week of lots of plans, leaving drinks, sports days, old colleagues, long drives up north, sleeping a lot, and a lovely walk. Read Week 297: Stanton Moor.

  3. Week 296: Lebanese

    Two fluffy black cats passed out on the floor, stretched to their maximum in an effort to cool down

    A week of incredibly hot flats, incredibly hot cats, a reasonable number of drinks, time on a balcony, overplanning in D&D, and a cry for Lebanese help. Read Week 296: Lebanese.

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.