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 315: Bonfire

    A large bonfire casting bright orange light across misty fields, with lots of people in silhouette dotted around

    A week of horrible sicknesses, being bedridden, starting Factorio, deconstructing showers, long walks along the valley, country pubs, big bonfires, and a drive back to London. Read Week 315: Bonfire.

  2. Week 314: Round Robin

    Ryber castle masked by layers of mist in the distance. Sun beams break through the mist creating perfect rays

    A week of good news, lovely catch ups, Halloween-themed quizzes, drinks, driving up to Matlock, autumnal walks, and getting sick. Read Week 314: Round Robin.

  3. Week 313: Tight Chest

    A week of large vulnerabilities, coordinating incidents, masses of D&D time, squash club quizzes, hermitting in Brighton, baby showers, house guests, and scary operations. Read Week 313: Tight Chest.

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.