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 185: Dune

    Two cute kittens play-fighting on the bed

    A week of booing, protests, guilt donations, unhappy fans, a happy welcome home, a planned loss of balls, a good reading streak, and enjoying sci-fi. Read Week 185: Dune.

  2. Week 184: Copenhagen & Malmö

    A week of election results, outdated consumer units, electricians, cooking pasta, Copenhagen, Malmö, spring weather, and prepping for Eurovision. Read Week 184: Copenhagen & Malmö.

  3. Week 183: Bluebells

    Charlotte walking through a tree tunnel with the wood around us carpeted in bluebells

    A week of tracking down bugs, availability metrics, far-too-large conferences, showering in the light, udon, shopping trips, co-op video games, and walks in bluebell woods. Read Week 183: Bluebells.

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.