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 307: Weeding

    An etching of an unfortunate man being held in the stocks

    A week of reliability engineering, wood-panelled walls, smooth drives, weeding the garden, putting off painting, visiting car boots, and local food sampling. Read Week 307: Weeding.

  2. Week 306: Joe & Niamh

    A week of fun D&D combats, basement imprisonment, physical media, yet more steam cleaning, trains up to Sheffield, and a really fun wedding. Read Week 306: Joe & Niamh.

  3. Week 305: Fiberglass

    Me stood over an anvil hammering a strip of red hot metal

    A week of theatre trips, union socials, post-work wine, summer camps, leaky tents, blacksmithing, wholesome activities, and dirty wellies. Read Week 305: Fiberglass.

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.