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 intense scrubbing, grout paint, loud board games, tasting menus, drives up north, bed frames, new guests, multiple walks, a word-count milestone, and a lot of world-building. Read Week 308: Stones.
A week of reliability engineering, wood-panelled walls, smooth drives, weeding the garden, putting off painting, visiting car boots, and local food sampling. Read Week 307: Weeding.
A week of fun D&D combats, basement imprisonment, physical media, yet more steam cleaning, trains up to Sheffield, and a really fun wedding. Read Week 306: Joe & Niamh.
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.
