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 126: Junk

    A large pile of miscellaneous junk that was scattered around our flat

    A week of being sickly and weak, COVID symptoms, cancelled plans, missing being social, little pink sausages, healthy doses of nostalgia, and a massive tidy. Read Week 126: Junk.

  2. Week 125: Skegmess

    Gareth Gates on stage in front of a flaming screen reaching out to an audience member

    A week of Whitechapel dinners, dungeon exploration, 2000s music, hundreds of hen dos, dancing on chairs, and freezing sea swims. Read Week 125: Skegmess.

  3. Week 124: Sosmix

    A bag of Sosmix which looks like stuffing mix

    A week of new teammates, long lunches, family time, fun new board games, shopping sprees, arranging frames, and 90s vegetarianism. Read Week 124: Sosmix.

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.