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 295: Minehead

    A beautiful sunset over the beach in Minehead

    A week of glue-gunning LEDs, sense memories, space themed nights out, room crawls, Butlins weekenders, beach sunsets, fun music, union activity, and hot weather. Read Week 295: Minehead.

  2. Week 294: Flyers

    A stack of flyers for Unite stacked on my desk, placed beside a box of 1,000

    A week of flyer deliveries, flyer distributions, new members, playing with lego, architecture diagrams, curtains, Bakewell puddings, boxes, and calm lads. Read Week 294: Flyers.

  3. Week 293: Worktop

    Our kitchen worktop after the first coat of oil

    A week of very fast new internet, moving routers, nice chill cats, a lack of yowling, lots of sanding, lots of silicone removal, oiling, hoovering, and some fun Dungeons and Dragons. Read Week 293: Worktop.

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.