Mike McQuaid discusses OSS Resistance: doing small amounts of open source work on company time, the risks involved and why it may help sustainability.

“Stop trying to overrule my preferences on how to use my computer.”

“It’s probably aimed a little more at newcomers than experienced Homebrew users.”

“The skill right now is being able to skim and spot nonsense while investing as little of your own time as you possibly can.”

“The ethics fucking suck. Open source isn’t just source code you download once. It’s an ongoing relationship.”

“If your project hasn’t argued about governance or money yet, it will one day. Be prepared and try to do this before it becomes a problem.”

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

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

Mike McQuaid discusses Homebrew’s evolution, open source maintenance on macOS, and practical package management tradeoffs.

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

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.

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

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.

“Typically the support cases we have are saying ‘if you don’t help me, the whole system of this government will stop’”

Engineers might start being penalised for not using AI in technical interviews.

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

Hi, I’m Mike McQuaid, the Project Leader for Homebrew and CTPO of Workbrew.

I’ve worked on open source software in some form for 20 years. I got started in a fairly traditional way, using desktop Linux in university in the early 2000s. Through this I ended up helping people out in IRC channels, submitting bugs and then patches on bug trackers and modifying existing software for my own use.

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.

Workbrew emerges from stealth with the mission of mitigating the risks of “shadow IT” practices around Homebrew package manager deployments.

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

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.

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 …

Installing and updating applications and other dependencies on a computer really should be a solved problem by now. Yet almost every major desktop operating system provides multiple options, with no real clear answer to “which is best.”

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!

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.