Mike McQuaid

I sometimes give interviews about open source, Workbrew, Homebrew, Git, GitHub and other things.

• Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid

  21 October 2025

  Software Engineering Daily

• Mike McQuaid: If You Don't Like It, Quit

  17 October 2025

  Breaking Change - Hotfix podcast

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

• Mike McQuaid on the Greatest Lessons He’s Learned in Over 16 Years at Homebrew

  07 October 2025

  GitHub Podcast

• How Ruby Went Off the Rails

  29 September 2025

  Emanuel Maiberg on 404 Media

• Maintainer burnout at critical Kubernetes project puts OSS contributions back in the spotlight

  20 August 2025

  Noah Bovenizer on The Stack

• AI-first hiring is everywhere and it’s not slowing down

  22 May 2025

  Sage Lazzaro on LeadDev

• Ep. #14, The Workbrew Story with Mike McQuaid and John Britton

  22 May 2025

  Open Source Ready Podcast

• Maintainers: Mike McQuaid

  20 May 2025

  Open Source Initiative

• Episode 397: Software Bill of Materials with Workbrew

  29 January 2025

  Mac Admins Podcast

• Workbrew makes open source package manager Homebrew enterprise-friendly

  19 November 2024

  TechCrunch

• The Homebrew maintainers who built a startup - Mike McQuaid and John Britton from Workbrew

  31 October 2024

  Scaling DevTools

  Available as YouTube video or podcast.

• Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid

  17 October 2024

  The Tech Lounge Podcast

• Homebrew, I'm more of a Whopper guy

  14 August 2024

  FLOSS Weekly

• After 15 years, the maintainer of Homebrew plans to make a living

  26 July 2024

  The Next Web

• Riding the Homebrew Wave

  28 May 2024

  Open Source Startup Podcast

• What Open Source Maintainers Should Know About Mental Health

  28 May 2024

  debug:mind

• Homebrew Turns 15

  21 May 2024

  "Homebrew Turns 15" stream

• Open Source Friday with Mike McQuaid and Homebrew

  03 May 2024

  GitHub's Open Source Friday

• Episode 356: Workbrew

  18 March 2024

  Mac Admins Podcast

• A coffee with Mike McQuaid, Workbrew CTO and Homebrew project leader

  15 March 2024

  Tech Informed

• Homebrew Unleashed: Diving into the Fast and Efficient Packaging Process

  13 March 2024

  Ruby Rogues

• Brewing up something for work

  20 February 2024

  Changelog and Friends

• External Forces At Play in our Digital Future

  06 February 2024

  State of Open Con

• State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase Three “Skills or Bust” report

  22 November 2023

  OpenUK

• The best books for becoming a great open source software engineer

  01 October 2023

  Shepherd

• Reactions to Apple’s new vision

  09 June 2023

  Changelog and Friends

• Mike McQuaid's clean, ergonomic setup in Edinburgh, Scotland

  08 April 2023

  Hacker Stations

• Homebrew with Mike McQuaid

  27 March 2023

  The Developers' Bakery

• Pop open a cask: Homebrew version 4.0.0 is here

  27 February 2023

  The Register

• Mike McQuaid of Homebrew on Sustainably Working on OSS Projects

  15 April 2022

  SustainOSS

• The Art Of Saying “No” As A Leader.

  09 February 2022

  Exaltitude

• Mike McQuaid (GitHub)

  06 April 2021

  StaffEng

• Homebrew! Part Deux

  06 March 2019

  The Changelog

• Interview with Mike, a software engineer who works remotely at GitHub

  20 August 2018

  Remote Habits

• When should you open source your software?

  13 April 2018

  IDG Connect

• 7 years of open source: GitHub, Puppet, DataStax, Severalnines

  25 October 2017

  ComputerWeekly.com

• Homebrew with Mike McQuaid

  16 August 2017

  The Manifest

• The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017

  28 July 2017

  The Changelog

• GitHub launches Open Source Friday

  27 June 2017

  OpenSource.com

• GitHub declares every Friday open source day

  27 June 2017

  VentureBeat

• How to avoid technical debt in open source communities

  23 May 2017

  ComputerWeekly

• Comment GitHub contribue à l’essor du développement en open source

  23 May 2017

  Numerama

  “How GitHub contributes to the development of open source development” (article is in French).

• GitHub launches app marketplace

  22 May 2017

  ITPro

• GitHub Marketplace goes live

  22 May 2017

  TechNative

• Homebrew MacOS package manager gets easier to use

  04 May 2017

  InfoWorld

• Looking Back on Homebrew’s First Year with Conservancy

  02 February 2017

  Software Freedom Conservancy blog

• Homebrew and Package Management

  07 October 2016

  The Changelog

• But What About The Stars?

  04 October 2016

  Ruby on Rails Podcast

• Interview with Mike McQuaid about Git in Practice

  04 March 2015

  InfoQ