The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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Cavalcade: WordPress Jobs at Scale
Complex WordPress sites need scheduled tasks, and asynchronous processing. We built Cavalcade, a horizontally-scalable WordPress jobs processing solution. We’ve been running Cavalcade in production for almost two years, so we’re confident in its stability and capability.
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Policies to empower humans
We’re sharing our handbook As we’ve grown and evolved as a company this year, we’ve thought hard about what we want to be. It’s easy to want to be inclusive, responsible, people-first; and it’s easy to say you’re those things too. We’ve learned a lot about who we are through writing down how we do…
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How much does it cost to organise a developer conference?
In March this year we organised the second edition of A Day of REST, our developer conference about the WordPress REST API. The first version of the event was in London, and the second edition was in Boston. At Human Made we place huge importance in open source and collaboration. These values underpin everything that…
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Constructing an Identity as a Remote Worker
‘We have no uniform, but we also have none of the workplace and social markers that help people in traditional jobs form their workplace identities.’
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Join us for an ‘A HM A’: Ask Human Made Anything
We’re hosting our first company AMA on remote work!
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Scaling WordPress Image Serving with Tachyon
To tackle the problem of serving large volumes of images for WordPress while minimising costs, we developed Tachyon, our open-source scalable image service.
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Jon Ang joins Human Made
I’m thrilled to announce that Jon Ang has joined Human Made as a project manager. You may know Jon by kenshino, his WordPress.org username, where he has been doing fantastic work on the documentation project. In the short time he has been on trial with Human Made, Jon has already made a big impact on our…
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Mike Little joins Human Made
It’s with huge excitement that I can announce that Mike Little is joining Human Made. Mike is the co-founder of the WordPress project, having forked a small blogging script, b2, with Matt Mullenweg. He has a long history with the project and brings with him unparalleled knowledge and experience of it. Mike will be joining…
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Announcing 10 scholarships for A Day of REST Boston
Applicants should be students or a part of an under-represented groups in the tech industry and get in touch before February 17th.
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Adrian McShane joins Human Made
It’s with great excitement that we’re welcoming Adrian McShane to Human Made as our Technical Project Lead. Adrian has deep history delivering technology across new and traditional big media, from his early work at The Telegraph, and his recent key role in bringing The Sun to WordPress, to founding several media startups of his own including tech.eu. Adrian will…
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Introducing the A Day of REST Boston workshops
WordPress 4.7 will be released in December, and with it come the content endpoints for the WordPress REST API. This is exciting news for our industry and a wonderful opportunity for both WordPress developers to expand their horizons and front end developers from outside our ecosystem to try WordPress as a headless CMS. Earlier in…
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What happened at A Week of REST?
On 5th September we welcomed developers from all over the world for our very first developer workshop – A Week of REST. It was wonderful to bring together such an engaged group of developers to the beautiful Peak District for four days of in-depth learning about the WordPress REST API and React. Why organise a…
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Announcing Out of Office, a remote work event
We’re thrilled to announce our latest event, Out of Office, an online conference for remote companies and professionals that will be streamed live on November 29th from 4pm – 8pm (GMT). Why? We’ve been a distributed agency since 2012. With 36 employees across the globe, we wanted to explore questions about remote work and share what…
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WCEU 2016: Talks Recommended by the Humans
It’s been over a month since the biggest WordCamp to date was hosted in Vienna for three intense days of talks, tribe meetups, mingling, networking and much more. Between the 24th – 26th June, WordCamp Europe 2016 welcomed 2100 people from all over the world in the beautiful MuseumsQuartier Wien. As usual, Human Made were there in force,…
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Scholarships for A Week of REST
A Week of REST will host a limited number of developers for a week-long workshop on using the WordPress REST API to build applications from 5th to 9th of September 2016 in Darwin Lake, Matlock in the United Kingdom. Attendees will get hands-on experience from Ryan McCue, co-lead of the REST API project, and Joe Hoyle,…
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A Week of REST: 5th – 9th September 2016
Today we’re excited to announce our latest event, A Week of REST, a five-day developer workshop in Matlock, Derbyshire, from 5th – 9th September 2016. As a company, we have a lot of in-house knowledge about the REST API: our developers have been a huge part of developing the feature, we use it for client projects…
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#HMgoes to WordCamp Torino!
If you’ve been to a WordCamp in Italy during 2014 or 2015, you’ve probably taken a detour to a parallel universe at some point. That’s right: whilst WordCamps were held in 34 different countries in 2015, with a huge jump in WordCamps held in Europe (from 17 in 2014 to 29 in 2015), Italy’s last…
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How many humans got props for 4.5?
Since the beginning (back in 2011!) Human Made has been passionate about our continued contribution to WordPress.org. The latest release, WordPress 4.5 Coleman, counts 298 contributors and out of those we’ve counted five proud humans! Props for ”Coleman” are given to Joe, John, Paul de Wouters, Peter and Ryan. Our work on the REST API Since the…
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Announcing A Day of REST Boston + Workshops
We’re thrilled to announce that after the overwhelmingly positive feedback from A Day of REST London, we will be bringing the event to the USA in October for A Day of REST Boston 2016 in partnership with Post Status. A Day of REST Boston will happen on 28th October 2016 with workshops the day before…
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Siobhan McKeown Joins Human Made
I’m amazingly happy to announce the Siobhan McKeown has joined Human Made as our Events Director. We’ve been lucky enough to get to work closely with Siobhan through this last year as we partnered to run A Day of REST, the conference we put on in London recently. Throughout our time working together Siobhan’s experience…
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Lightweight Image Previews in WordPress with Gaussholder
Last year, Facebook Engineering published their technique for generating 200 byte preview images. Today we’re releasing Gaussholder, a placeholder generator for WordPress using this technique.
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