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  • 2020 at Human Made

    2020 at Human Made

    For Human Made and our clients, 2020 has been a year marked by adaptation. With the world changing quickly and drastically around us we’ve had to adjust our own plans, and continue to support our clients and customers whilst they did the same. It’s been a year that’s tested us as people, a company, and…

  • Taking our company retreat online

    Taking our company retreat online

    Every year, Human Made gets together somewhere in the world for our annual company retreat. As a fully remote-working organisation this is an important part of our calendar as it gives us time together to renew relationships, make connections, hang out, and work on some of the bigger picture projects that are so much easier to…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Ivan Kristianto

    Welcome to Human Made: Ivan Kristianto

    We’re excited to welcome Ivan Kristianto as a Senior Web Engineer to Human Made! Ivan has a wealth of experience in WordPress and has over 15 years experience in developing web applications with most his career spent working in digital agencies. Ivan is an active contributor to the WordPress community having organised several WordCamp’s and…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Gareth Welton

    Welcome to Human Made: Gareth Welton

    We’re excited to welcome Gareth Welton as a Senior Project Manager to Human Made! Gareth has a wealth of experience with his career history beginning in design and publishing and moving to web design and software development and later to project management.  Having previously freelanced with us, we are thrilled to now have him as…

  • A primer on acceptance testing

    Foreword Last week, I took the exam for the ISTQB® Acceptance Testing certification. This is a Foundation Level certification, specializing on acceptance testing, including all related activities. In this post now, I would like to share the, in my opinion, essential information included in the official learning material, plus one or two things I learned…

  • Block transforms: a primer

    The Block Editor ships with a powerful API for converting raw text and/or blocks into other blocks. Almost any kind of content can be automatically upgraded to the Block equivalent using a feature called transforms. These transforms will take in HTML or string content and map it to the appropriate Block equivalent, using custom logic…

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