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 lots of plans, leaving drinks, sports days, old colleagues, long drives up north, sleeping a lot, and a lovely walk. Read Week 297: Stanton Moor.
A week of incredibly hot flats, incredibly hot cats, a reasonable number of drinks, time on a balcony, overplanning in D&D, and a cry for Lebanese help. Read Week 296: Lebanese.
A week of glue-gunning LEDs, sense memories, space themed nights out, room crawls, Butlins weekenders, beach sunsets, fun music, union activity, and hot weather. Read Week 295: Minehead.
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.
