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Mike McQuaid's Podcasts

Hosted by Mike McQuaid · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 45 episodes

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About this podcast

Mike McQuaid's podcast appearances and episodes from all his own podcasts.

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Mike McQuaid hosts Mike McQuaid's Podcasts, a technology show with 45 episodes published.

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How Homebrew Became Mac’s Package Manager with Mike McQuaid

Jan 26, 2026

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.

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Getting Shit Done in Institutions

Jan 24, 2026

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management David Yee, VP of Engineering at The New York Times and head of its new AI platforms and products mission, joins Mike McQuaid and Neha Batra for a candid, behind-the-scenes conversation

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The Most Important Skills Going Forward with CTO + Homebrew Maintainer Mike McQuaid

Jan 15, 2026

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

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Performance Reviews, Done Right

Jan 9, 2026

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management Performance reviews have a reputation for being stressful, confusing and often disconnected from reality. Too often they surface feedback that should have been shared months earlier or

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Politics at Work Without Losing Your Soul

Dec 29, 2025

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management In this episode, Mike and Neha are joined by Denise, an engineering leader and former colleague from GitHub and Pivotal, to unpack the reality of workplace politics and why ignoring the

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Beyond Engineering: Healthy Tension

Dec 19, 2025

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management Product, design and engineering rarely agree and that’s a good thing. In this episode, Mike McQuaid and Neha Batra break down what healthy tension actually looks like, why alignment is

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When Things Go Wrong: How Leaders Rebuild Trust

Nov 14, 2025

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management Mike and Neha explore how leaders can recognise when things are going wrong, why admitting mistakes builds trust, how to spot low psychological safety, and the value of written plans, a

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Creating and Keeping Momentum

Oct 31, 2025

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management Mike McQuaid and Neha Batra break down how leaders spark momentum and keep it steady. They start with clarity of mission, ruthless scope cuts, and visible wins in weeks not years. They

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Psychological Safety vs. Telling the Truth

Oct 23, 2025

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management How can teams feel safe to speak up while still hearing hard truths? In this episode of Minimum Viable Management, Mike McQuaid and Neha Batra explore what it really means to balance ps

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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid

Oct 20, 2025

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

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Mike McQuaid: If You Don’t Like It, Quit

Oct 16, 2025

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

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Leadership Is a Series of Decisions (and Compromises)

Oct 14, 2025

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management In this episode of Minimum Viable Management, Mike McQuaid and Neha Batra dive deep into the messy art of decision-making. When should you seek input and build consensus and when should

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Building Trust and Having Better Fights

Oct 9, 2025

Podcast: Minimum Viable Management In the first episode of Minimum Viable Management, Mike McQuaid and Neha Batra reunite to talk about what “minimum viable management” really means: how to lead effectively without drown

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

Oct 6, 2025

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.

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Distributing Your CLI with Homebrew: Tips from Mike McQuaid

Sep 8, 2025

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

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

May 21, 2025

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.

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Episode 397: Software Bill of Materials with Workbrew

Jan 28, 2025

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.

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

Oct 30, 2024

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

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Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid

Oct 16, 2024

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 feat

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Homebrew, I’m more of a Whopper guy

Aug 13, 2024

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 …

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