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  • Human Day: a company-paid working day with our loved ones

    Human Day: a company-paid working day with our loved ones

    Working from home doesn’t just have an impact on Human Made’s employees. It also has an impact on all of the people who live with them.

  • Accessible Design: a process

    Accessible Design: a process

    Web accessibility aims to create an online space that is available to everyone, and a key part of that is designing websites and software that are flexible for all user needs.

  • Welcome to Human Made: Than Taintor

    Welcome to Human Made: Than Taintor

    We’re delighted to welcome Than Taintor to Human Made as a WordPress Engineer. With previous roles at Fusion and Janrain, Than is a full stack engineer with a lot of experience behind him. He is a self-taught polyglot programmer with a background in graphic design, and he is a huge advocate for free and open source software. Than has…

  • Contributing to open source: strategy or effect?

    Contributing to open source: strategy or effect?

    When we talk about contributing we’re not really talking about one specific thing. Contributing to open source is, predominantly, about improving the software for everyone. But what does it mean? And why do we do it?

  • WP Remote finds a home with maekit

    WP Remote finds a home with maekit

    In 2015, we wrote about giving WP Remote a new home. In 2017 we found the perfect buyer, and now we’re delighted to announce that the future of WP Remote is in the competent hands of the brilliant team at maekit.

  • Our favourite sessions at WordCamp Europe 2017

    Our favourite sessions at WordCamp Europe 2017

    We’re taking a look back at some of our favourite presentations, and giving serious props to these fantastic speakers! Franz Vitulli’s favourite long talk was Big Little Shame — a Tale of Empowered User Experience Through Localisation, by Caspar Hübinger. He felt it was really insightful and spot-on from a linguistic point of view. His favourite lightning talk, The…