The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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Welcome to Human Made: Stuart Shields
I’m so pleased to announce that Stuart Shields has joined us as a WordPress Engineer! Based in Toowoomba, Australia, Stuart comes to us from XWP where he’d worked as an Engineer for over a year and a half on VIP client projects. He’d already gained significant experience in a small team at a local Graphic Design agency,…
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Humans in Paris: WordPress Community Summit & WordCamp Europe 2017
Two weeks ago, people from Europe and beyond descended on the beautiful French capital for an annual celebration of the WordPress community. 1,900 people from 79 countries came together for the biggest WordPress event in Europe. And the humans were there in force! As well as organising, volunteering, and speaking at WordCamp Europe 2017, from…
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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.’