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  • Policies to empower humans

    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…

  • How much does it cost to organise a developer conference?

    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…

  • Constructing an Identity as a Remote Worker

    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.’

  • Join us for an ‘A HM A’: Ask Human Made Anything

    Join us for an ‘A HM A’: Ask Human Made Anything

    We’re hosting our first company AMA on remote work!

  • Scaling WordPress Image Serving with Tachyon

    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.

  • Jon Ang joins Human Made

    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…