Talks

Ruby on (Guard)Rails

The guardrails I love in the Ruby ecosystem and why you should use and love them too.

Workbrew - Homebrew for Mac Admins

What are some problems that Mac Admins may have with Homebrew and how Workbrew solves them.

Using "modern" Ruby to build a better, faster Homebrew

Learn why Homebrew now ships its own Ruby, modern Ruby tooling we rely on, how to make Homebrew faster and how we are improving Homebrew.

Homebrew's Evolution

I look back at the last year of Homebrew and forward to what we expect to build in the next year.

Open Source: boundaries, burnout, business

Discussion of the current state of maintainer boundaries, avoiding burnout and economic/business aspects of open source software.

Homebrew's Great Migration: moving to GitHub Packages with zero downtime

Deciding between available options, compromises between Homebrew and GitHub, the hard deadline and using “soft power” to affect change.

Building Effective Relationships

In this talk I discuss the types of relationships to build as a staff+ engineer, deciding whether to start/stop/continue them and how to do this whether colocated or async and distributed.

Homebrew: What's Happened and What's Next?

What we've done since last FOSDEM, some of the features in development and how to test them before they are released.

The Best Project

The best project I ever worked on and what we can learn about software from the lessons I learnt.

Ignorance, Incompetence and Insignificance: The Ingredients To Build Great Software

Some heuristics to build better software, quicker by learning from the past, the present and the future in your software projects.

Staff+: Career Progression Without Management

The traditional route for progression in the software industry is from a senior-level individual contributor (IC), e.g. a senior engineer, into a management role.

Homebrew: A Packagers Deep Dive

A deep-dive on the interesting (both good and bad) aspects of the Homebrew package manager that will be interesting to other package manager maintainers or enthusiasts.

Open Source Economics (is not what you think)

What open source economics aren't, are and the solutions for open source economic problems.

Robot Pedantry, Human Empathy

What I’ve figured out to manage large numbers of open-source contributions pleasantly and efficiently.

Homebrew: macOS Big Sur and ARM

Changes needed to work on Big Sur and to support a new CPU architecture.

Homebrew: Features and Funding

How Homebrew introduces new features and encourages donations.

Being Productive at GitHub

Tips and tricks for being (more) productive as an engineer working at GitHub.

Building Homebrew in Ruby

Learn about things Homebrew loves, hates and struggles with because it is built in Ruby.

Homebrew 2.0.0

The major features and community changes in Homebrew 2.0.0.

How To (Not) Fail At Using Open Source Software In Your Organisation

Learn how to use open source software in your organisation without succumbing to the most common of pitfalls.

Working with others using Git and GitHub

The basics of using Git and GitHub to collaborate on a multi-person software project.

Effective Open Source Interactions

Everyone is using open source software now but most people have not figured out how to interact effectively with the open source software community.

Helping Yourself with Open Source Software

Learn what open source software is, why you should contribute and what effectively run open source projects look like.

The Power of the Open Source Community

What makes an open source project successful, and what workflow tools GitHub has been building to help communities become happier places.

Why People Don't Contribute To Your Open Source Project

How users generally progress from filing bad issues to filing good issues to making simple contributions to making complex contributions to maintaining an open source project.

Homebrew - Getting to 1.0.0

Learn about what went into Homebrew 1.0.0, how we got Homebrew ready to ship such a major milestone and why we decided to declare a 1.0.0 release after all these years.