Interviews
I sometimes give interviews about open source, Workbrew, Homebrew, Git, GitHub and other things. Here are some examples:
AI-first hiring is everywhere and it’s not slowing down
Sage Lazzaro on LeadDev, 22nd May, 2025
Ep. #14, The Workbrew Story with Mike McQuaid and John Britton
Open Source Ready Podcast, 22nd May, 2025
Maintainers: Mike McQuaid
Open Source Initiative, 20th May, 2025
Episode 397: Software Bill of Materials with Workbrew
Mac Admins Podcast, 29th January, 2025
Workbrew makes open source package manager Homebrew enterprise-friendly
TechCrunch, 19th November, 2024
The Homebrew maintainers who built a startup - Mike McQuaid and John Britton from Workbrew
Available as YouTube video or podcast
Scaling DevTools, 31st October, 2024
Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid
The Tech Lounge Podcast, 17th October, 2024
Homebrew, I’m more of a Whopper guy
FLOSS Weekly, 14th August, 2024
After 15 years, the maintainer of Homebrew plans to make a living
The Next Web, 26th July, 2024
Riding the Homebrew Wave
Open Source Startup Podcast, 28th May, 2024
What Open Source Maintainers Should Know About Mental Health
debug:mind, 28th May, 2024
Homebrew Turns 15
“Homebrew Turns 15” stream, 21st May, 2024
Open Source Friday with Mike McQuaid and Homebrew
GitHub’s Open Source Friday, 3rd May, 2024
Episode 356: Workbrew
Mac Admins Podcast, 18th March, 2024
A coffee with Mike McQuaid, Workbrew CTO and Homebrew project leader
Tech Informed, 15th March, 2024
Homebrew Unleashed: Diving into the Fast and Efficient Packaging Process
Ruby Rogues, 13th March, 2024
Brewing up something for work
Changelog and Friends, 20th February, 2024
External Forces At Play in our Digital Future
State of Open Con, 6th February, 2024
State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase Three “Skills or Bust” report
OpenUK, 22nd November, 2023
The best books for becoming a great open source software engineer
Shepherd, 1st October, 2023
Reactions to Apple’s new vision
Changelog and Friends, 9th June, 2023
Mike McQuaid’s clean, ergonomic setup in Edinburgh, Scotland
Hacker Stations, 8th April, 2023
Homebrew with Mike McQuaid
The Developers’ Bakery, 27th March 2023
Pop open a cask: Homebrew version 4.0.0 is here
The Register, 27th February 2023
Mike McQuaid of Homebrew on Sustainably Working on OSS Projects
SustainOSS, 15th April 2022
The Art Of Saying “No” As A Leader.
Exaltitude, 9th February 2022
Mike McQuaid (GitHub)
StaffEng, 6th April 2021
Homebrew! Part Deux
The Changelog, 6th March 2019
Interview with Mike, a software engineer who works remotely at GitHub
Remote Habits, 20th August 2018
When should you open source your software?
IDG Connect, 13th April 2018
7 years of open source: GitHub, Puppet, DataStax, Severalnines
ComputerWeekly.com, 25th October 2017
Homebrew with Mike McQuaid
The Manifest, 16th August 2017
The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017
The Changelog, 28th July 2017
GitHub launches Open Source Friday
OpenSource.com, 27th June 2017
GitHub declares every Friday open source day
VentureBeat, 27th June 2017
How to avoid technical debt in open source communities
ComputerWeekly, 23rd May 2017
Comment GitHub contribue à l’essor du développement en open source
“How GitHub contributes to the development of open source development” (article is in French). Numerama, 23rd May 2017
GitHub launches app marketplace
ITPro, 22nd May 2017
GitHub Marketplace goes live
TechNative, 22nd May 2017
Homebrew MacOS package manager gets easier to use
InfoWorld, 4th May 2017
Looking Back on Homebrew’s First Year with Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy blog, 2nd February 2017
Homebrew and Package Management
The Changelog, 7th October 2016
But What About The Stars?
Ruby on Rails Podcast, 4th October 2016
Interview with Mike McQuaid about Git in Practice
InfoQ, 4th March 2015
