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: 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…
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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?
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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.
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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…
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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.’
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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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