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 231: The Residence

    A fluffy black cat looking pleased with himself, strutting along the top of the kitchen cupboards at head height

    A week of great pub quizzes, drawing rounds, leaving drinks, heartburn, good TV, fusion food, booking flights, and adventurous lads. Read Week 231: The Residence.

  2. Week 230: Beanz

    Six bowls of baked beans, all slightly different colours, looking very unappetising

    A week of shandies in the sun, client-side metrics, sick grandmas, hospital visits, cancelled plans, a lot of DIY, and far too many baked beans. Read Week 230: Beanz.

  3. Week 229: Two Point Museum

    A cat half inside a cereal box, rooting around for treats

    A week of fun hack days, writing PHP, sickness in the house, sickness in the family, building museums together, and new cat games. Read Week 229: Two Point Museum.

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.