
How Homebrew Became Mac’s Package Manager with Mike McQuaid
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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Hosted by Mike McQuaid · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 45 episodes
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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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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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Podcast: freeCodeCamp Podcast Mike McQuaid joins Quincy Larson to discuss career lessons and the software engineering skills worth prioritizing next.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily Mike McQuaid discusses Homebrew’s evolution, open source maintenance on macOS, and practical package management tradeoffs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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