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 divesting from US tech, racing horses, big migrations, bad markets, union rep training, my mental wellbeing, tomatoes, and the latest Bridgerton. Read Week 279: Economists Agree.
A week of several socials, being sensible, D&D session three of two, blank space, time alone, Sausage & Egg McMuffins, and some VPS noodling. Read Week 278: McMuffin.
A week of D&D planning, learning Rust, escaping AI, a meat and carb diet, dressing as eggs, and lots of inflatable frog adventures. Read Week 277: Frosch.
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.
