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 237: Picnic

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    A week of good family news, relief, creeping burnout, booking holidays, lovely picnics, summer drinks, cute dogs, and climbing experts. Read Week 237: Picnic.

  2. Week 236: Dans le Noir

    A week of beautiful weather, more leaks, some union activity, International Workers' Day, treasure hunts, eating in the dark, vaccinations, and a long walk. Read Week 236: Dans le Noir.

  3. Week 235: Wetlands

    A black and brown cat draped over a carpet-textured cusion, fast asleep and looking peaceful

    A week of quiet evenings, healthier lifestyle choices, long walks to Walthamstow, London parks, marathons, museums, and sleeping lads. Read Week 235: Wetlands.

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.