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 201: Travel Budget

    Douglas Fir, a small black cat, playing with a bottle of Moju

    A week of lazing in the bed, in-person boardgames, various family visits, a fun wedding, minimal working, travel spreadsheets, and cats pushing things over. Read Week 201: Travel Budget.

  2. Week 200: Cognac

    A rum cocktail with a rice paper hot air balloon floating on top

    A week of arbitrary milestones, obsessive gaming, fun quiz nights, making cocktails, eating lots, drinking lots, pissy beds, and bad cat owners. Read Week 200: Cognac.

  3. Week 199: Great Malvern

    A sunny view across the ridge of the Malvern hills, looking out towards Worcestershire beacon - a large hill in the distance

    A week of long walks, tea rooms, cheap pints, short work weeks, double party days, insurance, choosing paint samples, and finishing several books. Read Week 199: Great Malvern.

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.