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 273: Gut is Great

    A spreadsheet tracking my food consumption over a couple of weeks and the resulting trend in my psoriasis and gut health. Both are improving.

    A week of continued diets, excellent gut health, buying and winning board games, sickness, rolling characters, and printing lots of D&D stuff. Read Week 273: Gut is Great.

  2. Week 272: Mudlarking

    A view of Bermondsey from the sandy beach in Wapping

    A week of being back at work, surprisingly easy diets, creative cooking, playing Blue Prince, treasure hunts, and mudlarking on the Thames. Read Week 272: Mudlarking.

  3. Week 271: Elimination Diet

    A view from the sea front at Broadstairs, looking down over a cold but sunny beach

    A week of being exhausted, fun pub crawls, big health decisions, cutting out a lot of food, and long walks along the coast. Read Week 271: Elimination Diet.

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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.

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