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 234: Morecambe

    A view out over Morecambe bay from the beach at Arnside

    A week of illustrations, long weekends, long drives, nights out in Blackpool, long walks, mud flats, pavlovas, and roast dinners. Read Week 234: Morecambe.

  2. Week 233: Mural

    Ian McKellen giving a speech

    A week of popping out tokens, uninvited guests, guests of honour, speeches, chatting to local strangers, mural unveilings, parties, and gratin. Read Week 233: Mural.

  3. Week 232: Biscuit

    A shepherds pie and a bakewell cake sat on a table, with two cats looking interested

    A week of brandless socials, new catsitters, fun with our neighbours, cooking and baking, drives to Canterbury, family visits, cute dogs, traffic, and horse riding. Read Week 232: Biscuit.

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.