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 265: Echo

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    A week of poor decisions, world-building, making maps, planning D&D sessions, weekends in Brighton, and a week off up north. Read Week 265: Echo.

  2. Week 264: BOBBRT

    An array of AI-generated posters with nonsense text on them

    A week of drinks with friends, drinks with colleagues and friends, trips to Matlock, second viewings, puzzle games, grandparents, D&D planning, and some slop on a wall. Read Week 264: BOBBRT.

  3. Week 263: Dan and Jen

    A plastic roulette wheel with six random shots placed around the edge.

    A week of union organising, lots of office days, roundtables, roulette wheels, weddings, being sensible, a finale, and a lot of notes. Read Week 263: Dan and Jen.

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.