Hi đź‘‹ I’m Rowan, a Principal 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 haircuts, COVID tests, time with friends, a forbidden hug, and doing an awful lot of crosswords. Read more.
A week of good cladding news, excellent (and very fancy) fry ups, having too much hair, and an off licence crawl. Read more.
A week of better sleep, better holiday, some very impressive show-jumping from Tootsie, and a wholesome harvest. Read more.
An explainer on RSS and feed readers, a history of my reading habits over the years, and Audrey – a new open source project that will hopefully encourage me to read more. Read a bit about web feeds.
Way back in March this year, early on in lockdown, I had a burst of inspiration and built a silly game which you can play on Slack. I wanted to talk through the process I go through on the rare occasion when I start a side project. Saddle up.