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.
A week of multiple D&D sessions, pen and paper, coffee with the family, surgeries, well-attended drinks, tech trash fires, lazy weekends, new games, and roast dinners. Read Week 311: Finspan.
A week of in-person games, multiple drinks, Union socials, birthday drinks, sick cats, wet poops, leasing cars, resolving incidents, and causing incidents. Read Week 310: Rate Limit.
A week of being back in the city, a short D&D session, trickery, meeting new people, D&D prep, housewarmings, jägerbombs, dinners, and an early night. Read Week 309: Session 0.
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.
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.
