Mike McQuaid's Podcasts

Podcast: Screaming in the Cloud Mike McQuaid explains how Homebrew grew from a side project into macOS’s de facto package manager and how the project is sustained today.

Podcast: freeCodeCamp Podcast Mike McQuaid joins Quincy Larson to discuss career lessons and the software engineering skills worth prioritizing next.

Podcast: Software Engineering Daily Mike McQuaid discusses Homebrew’s evolution, open source maintenance on macOS, and practical package management tradeoffs.

Podcast: Breaking Change - Hotfix podcast Also available in swear-free/bleeped version on The Changelog and Friends podcast There will be bleeps.

Podcast: GitHub Podcast Homebrew’s project lead Mike McQuaid joins Abby and Andrea to unpack what it really takes to sustain one of the most-used developer tools on macOS and Linux.

Podcast: Ruby Rogues In this episode of Ruby Rogues, I sit down with Mike McQuaid, lead maintainer of Homebrew, to talk all about building and distributing CLIs. We dig into the practical steps for turning small scripts into reliable command-line tools, why Ruby is a great starting point, and when you might want to reach for Go or Rust instead.

Podcast: Open Source Ready Podcast In episode 14 of Open Source Ready, special guests Mike McQuaid and John Britton join Brian and John to share the story of Workbrew.

Podcast: Mac Admins Podcast The team at Workbrew has been focused on getting into full production, and they’ve gotten a huge head of steam going in 2024. They’re with us today to talk about SBOMs.

Podcast: Scaling DevTools Mike McQuaid and John Britton are cofounders of Workbrew - a tool that gives you the missing features for enterprises running Homebrew.

Podcast: The Tech Lounge Podcast I speak with Mike McQuaid, long-term maintainer of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, about Workbrew, a new commercial version of Homebrew that brings extra security and governance features to Homebrew.

Podcast: FLOSS Weekly This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with John Britton and Mike McQuaid about Homebrew! That’s the missing package manager for macOS; and Workbrew, the commercial offering built …

Podcast: Open Source Startup Podcast John Britton & Mike McQuaid are Co-Founders of Workbrew, the company that provides additional features and support for companies using Homebrew. Homebrew’s main project, brew, is a wildly popular open source project with 40K GitHub stars and provides the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux). In this episode, we dig into John & Mike’s history with Homebrew and their time together at GitHub, how Homebrew has kept projects simple over time and avoided feature creep, how Homebrew has managed to get a lot of value from contributors, how their ICP has shifted from mac admins to dev and security teams & more!

Podcast: debug:mind In this special episode of “debug:mind”, I chat with Mike McQuaid, a leading figure in the open-source community and co-founder of Workbrew.

Podcast: Mac Admins Podcast The team from Workbrew joins us this week to discuss the challenges MacAdmins face with Homebrew at their companies.

Podcast: Ruby Rogues Mike McQuaid is the CTO and cofounder at Workbrew. They dive into the world of Homebrew, an open-source package manager for macOS and Linux. They explore the history and development of Homebrew, from its origins in the Ruby community to its evolution into a widely-used tool for installing and managing software.

Podcast: Changelog and Friends Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.

Podcast: The Developers' Bakery Into the most popular package manager for macOS with Homebrew and Mike McQuaid.

Podcast: SustainOSS Mike McQuaid shares on the history of Homebrew, his involvement in open source, boundary setting, and what software sustainability means for him.

Podcast: StaffEng Podcast Today we have a great guest to talk about his transition to, and current role as, a staff engineer: Mike McQuaid from GitHub!

Podcast: Balancing Dads Paul and Mike talk coronavirus, working through it, racism and sibling fights.VitoBeing an Antiracist by Kim CraytonMike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads Paul and Mike talk to Derek Sivers (founder of CD Baby and HostBaby) about outside play, computer games, focus, happiness, John Lennon's parenting and singing.Derek's websiteDragonbox Math AppsSteven Universe on WikipediaMike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads A between-season, random episode: Paul and Mike talk Coronavirus, being stuck at home and how it could change the way we work.Coronavirus updates - BBC NewsHow to Work From Home With Kids - WirecutterBest Educational Apps and Learning Games for Kids - WirecutterMike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads Paul and Mike talk to Tom Preston-Werner (cofounder of Chatterbug and GitHub) about giving your kids medicine, parental leave, screen time, flexible working and avoiding meltdowns.This is the last episode of Season 1; we're going to have a wee break, get some feedback, find some more guests and then we'll be back with Season 2. See you soon!Tom on TwitterTom's websiteMike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads No guest this time (we will have one next time)!Paul and Mike talk Dinotrux, dogs singing pirate metal, brushing teeth, meeting other parents and Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's latest book (and Axel's website).Dinotrux on WikipediaNo Grave But The Sea (pirate metal with "dogs singing") on WikipediaThe Smeds and the Smoos on AmazonCars Electric ToothbrushAxel Scheffler's websiteMike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads This time Mike and Paul are speaking with Alex Lang and Thilo Utke: Berlin-based founders of Cobot about paternity leave, baby groups, having kids while running a startup, memories and language.Author of "Cribsheet", Emily Oster (Wikipedia)Cobot on TwitterCobot's homepageMike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads No guest this time (we expect one next time)! Mike and Paul talk sick kids, balancing them with work, screen time, Scottish, English and Irish healthcare for kids and anticipate schools.Mike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads No guest this time! Mike and Paul talk Halloween, Christmas, lying to your children, advertising, toys, teenagers and threenagers.Mike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads This time Mike and Paul are speaking with Jame McCrae: Edinburgh-based infectious disease doctor, father of one and Mike's next-door neighbour about doctors dating doctors, children sleeping, their toys and Julia Donaldson's (great) children's books.Sophie the Giraffe (Wikipedia)Julia Donaldson's works (Wikipedia)Jame has "no internet presence and no plans to get one"Mike on TwitterPaul on TwitterSorry about the sound quality of this one; we're still trying to find the best way to record multiple guests.

Podcast: Balancing Dads This time we're speaking with ... me? Edinburgh-based Mike McQuaid, software engineer and father of two, is interviewed by his new co-host (from Episode 1): Paul Campbell.Mike on TwitterPaul on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads This episode we're speaking to Kirkland, Washington-based Lee Dohm: a community manager in the software industry and single dad. Lee on Twitter Lee on GitHub Mike on Twitter

Podcast: Balancing Dads This time we're speaking with Dublin-based Paul Campbell a CEO, founder, conference organiser and father of two.Paul on TwitterÚll on Twitter (mentioned conference)Tito's homepage (Paul's company)Mike on Twitter

Podcast: The Changelog We’re talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they had in 2018, their new governance model, Mike’s new role, the core team meeting in-person at FOSDEM this year, and what’s coming next for Homebrew.

Podcast: The Manifest Wherein we chat with Mike McQuaid, the lead maintainer of Homebrew. We discuss how he got started contributing to Homebrew, its differences from Macports, using GitHub as a database, patching upstream, and more.

Podcast: The Changelog This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Developer and Creator of Zarf), and Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal (GitHub Open Source Programs).

Podcast: The Changelog Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.

Podcast: Ruby on Rails Podcast In this episode, Kyle is joined by Mike McQuaid, a maintainer on Homebrew, to talk about open source, how Homebrew works, and the hardest part of running a huge package manager for Macs. Let’s give this new format a try!