@rowanmanning

Senior Engineer at @FT. This is just cross-posted from Mastodon now: https://xitter.cf/t.co/3lM1gnXsQ0

 London, UK
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Joined November 2009
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Heya, I haven't been posting weeknotes here lately to see if there's any impact. The stats show no change so this is probs my last tweet! If you want to stay in touch then I have RSS feeds on my website (rowanmanning.com/) and I'm active on Mastodon (link on my profile) 😘
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Such a wholesome long weekend and a stark contrast to last week's bleakness ☀️ I love the lakes rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 128: Winter Crag

A week of lakes, beautiful scenery, long drives, long walks, easter egg hunts with friends, meta weeknotes, Railroad Ink, and looking forward to the D&D movie

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Our first Bleak Weekend was a great success. I can thoroughly recommend staying in a motorway service station for a weekend rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 127: Bleak Weekend

A week of in-person board games, pirate escape rooms, motorway service stations, run down Travelodges, no-phones days, tired people, and disposable cameras.

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Here's the long-awaited Sosmix verdict and a picture of a pile of junk. Bonus points if you can spot anything inappropriate that I forgot to crop out rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 126: Junk

A week of being sickly and weak, COVID symptoms, cancelled plans, missing being social, little pink sausages, healthy doses of nostalgia, and a massive tidy.

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Gareth Gates looked at me everybody, in case you need to know how my weekend went rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 125: Skegmess

A week of Whitechapel dinners, dungeon exploration, 2000s music, hundreds of hen dos, dancing on chairs, and freezing sea swims.

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This one goes out to the people who were raised vegetarian in the 90s rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 124: Sosmix

A week of new teammates, long lunches, family time, fun new board games, shopping sprees, arranging frames, and 90s vegetarianism.

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Don't you just love end-to-end tests and fancy dinners? rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 123: Myrtle

A week of fatigue, meetings, birthday tasting menus, parsing feeds, comforting end-to-end tests, still not painting the office, and a fun gig.

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Week 122: Goblincore rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes I'm having a great time hacking around with Atom and RSS feed parsing and you'll be pleased to know my entire knitware range is now wearable again.

Week 122: Goblincore

A week of interesting playlists, neatly folded jumpers, carpenters, a refreshingly tidy house, evenings coding, reading technical specs, and delicious kimchi.

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Quite a nice week despite the snot, having to sleep in the living room, and drinking too much "Dr Pepper" rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 121: Floorboards

A week of snot, heart-shaped halloumi, deconstructing bedrooms, being energy magnates, trips to Faversham, and missing the office again.

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What a lovely weekend ❤️ rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 119: Ginny

A week of HR drinks, prepping for wardrobes, getting rid of junk, sibling road trips, very cute Bearded Collies, and reconnecting with my dad's family.

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Quite thankful that January's nearly over rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 118: Swiss Roll

A week of birthday non-celebrations, excellent cakes, small children, choking hazards, fun goose chases, and lazy weekends.

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A busy week and an astounding amount of taxidermy animals rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 117: Tring

A week of buying annual leave, meeting new Whitechapel friends, auctions, hundreds of taxidermy animals, looming birthdays, family plans, and spreadsheets.

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Spaniels have far more energy than is reasonable rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 116: Taskmaster House

A week of incident management, new tooling, vegetarianism, drinking champagne, long dog walks, and the Taskmaster house.

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No more key rotations pls #WeekNotes rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1…

Week 115: Incident(s)

A week of back-to-work security incidents, wardrobe quotes, large amounts of vegan food, and time with the family.

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Bit of a heavy week, kind of looking forward to normality! Leith Hill's lovely rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #WeekNotes

Week 114: Roll for Cocktail

A week of birthday parties, New Year parties, properly resting, organised drinking fun, spongey drinks, walking in the countryside, and extra holiday

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Merry Christmas everyone! #WeekNotes rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1…

Week 113: Shelves

A week of bookshelves, unpacking, Christmas in Hull, a festive hot tub, car upgrades, time with the family, researching ancestry, and some shaky first steps.

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Bored of being sick but it's nearly over. #WeekNotes featuring a cute fox friend rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1…

Week 112: Dr Pepper

A week of more sickness, catching up on TV, trimming shelves, snow in Wapping Woods, a foxy friend, and a dangerous cocktail.

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I'm sick 😞 but it's giving me time to watch a lot of Christmas movies rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1…

Week 111: Festive Nepotism

A week of Christmas parties, bottomless brunch, festive nepotism, Freddy Prince Junior, Lindsay Lohan, over-explained magic, and coming down with something.

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Some tough trial-related news this week, but still had a few highlights rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1… #weeknotes

Week 109: Nuvole Bianche

A week of trial news, low motivation, great TV, sickness, fun Christmas parties, more sickness, and piano music in Central Hall.

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I had a lovely weekend in York, and I've been thinking a lot about how my brain works #weeknotes rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/1…

Week 108: Self-Diagnosis

A week of thinking about my brain, new phones, comedy, excellent tech talks, visits from Canada, solar systems, city walls, and scones.

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