Oct 28, 202639 min
Cassidy and GPS welcome GitHub VP of Developer Relations (and original GitHub Podcast host) Martin Woodward. Martin reflects on attending every Universe since its earliest days, then digs into what he calls one of the...
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The GitHub Podcast
Hosted by GitHub · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
This is the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.
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What is The GitHub Podcast about?
This is the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.
Who hosts The GitHub Podcast?
The GitHub Podcast is hosted by GitHub. The show has published 49 episodes to date.
What has The GitHub Podcast covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Universe Week, Hackable Badges, and GitHub’s Open Source Dilemma" (28 October 2026, 39 minutes), "Stacked PRs, Ghost Merges, and the Merge Box: Inside GitHub's Biggest Pull Request Change in Years" (14 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "Tiny Wins for Maintainers: PR Limits, the "AI Slop" Problem, and Rating Repos with Copilot" (30 September 2026, 29 minutes).
How often does The GitHub Podcast publish?
The GitHub Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 49 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The GitHub Podcast?
Booking probability for The GitHub Podcast is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The GitHub Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The GitHub Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch The GitHub Podcast?
The strongest fits for The GitHub Podcast are IT Services & Software Development. The GitHub Podcast has a technology audience.
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GitHub hosts The GitHub Podcast, a technology podcast with 49 episodes published.
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Episode #53
Stacked PRs, Ghost Merges, and the Merge Box: Inside GitHub's Biggest Pull Request Change in Years
Oct 14, 202641 minCassidy and Andrea are joined by Sameen Karim, Senior Product Manager at GitHub, to dig into stacked pull requests, GitHub's newly launched (and long-requested) way to break large changes into a linked chain of small...
Episode #50
Tiny Wins for Maintainers: PR Limits, the "AI Slop" Problem, and Rating Repos with Copilot
Sep 30, 202629 minCassidy and GPS are joined by Camilla Moraes, a product manager on GitHub's Maintainer Love (aka Tiny Wins) team, to talk about how the team finds and ships small, high-impact fixes for open source maintainers. Camilla...
- Sep 16, 202635 min
Cassidy and GPS dive into a round of AI hot takes to separate the extreme, engagement-bait opinions from the actual nuance. They debate whether developers still need to read AI-generated code, why “jobs won't hire you...
- Sep 2, 202625 min
In today’s episode, Cassidy, Marlene, and GPS tackle the ever-growing pile of new AI and agent terminology that's popped up seemingly overnight. They break down loop engineering (designing systems that prompt your...
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Episode #47
Welcome back to The GitHub Podcast!
Aug 19, 202624 minThe GitHub Podcast is back for Season 2! In the season opener, Cassidy Williams is joined by co-hosts Marlene Mhangami and GPS Peña-Siguenza. The trio revisits their favorite moments from Season 1, including Keeley...
- Dec 30, 202532 min
In this year-in-review episode of The GitHub Podcast, Cassidy and Abby are joined by Helen Hou-Sandí, GitHub’s engineering manager for the Accessibility Engineering team and lead developer in the WordPress project. They...
- Dec 16, 202528 min
In this episode guest host Greg Cochran from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund brings together four maintainers who are helping secure the open source projects we all depend on: Christian (Log4j/Log4Shell), Carlos...
Episode #44
LIVE from GitHub Universe: Angie Jones on Goose, MCP, and the Real-World Future of AI Agents
Dec 2, 202522 minAbby sits down with Angie Jones, VP of Engineering at Block, live at GitHub Universe to talk about Goose, Block’s open source AI agent and reference implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Angie shares how...
- Nov 18, 202525 min
In this episode, recorded live at GitHub Universe 2025, Andrea sits down with Frank “Frenck” Nijhof, a GitHub Star and project lead for Home Assistant, one of the most active open source projects on the platform. They...
- Nov 4, 202537 min
Andrea and Kedasha sit down with data whisperer Jeff Luszcz, one of the wizards behind GitHub’s annual Octoverse report, to unpack this year’s biggest shifts. They get into why TypeScript overtook Python on GitHub, how...
- Oct 21, 202531 min
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby sits down with Felix Reda, Director of Developer Policy at GitHub, and Christian Grobmeier, a longtime Log4J maintainer, to reflect on the aftermath of the Log4Shell...
- Oct 7, 202532 min
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. From early GitHub workflows to today’s automation and...
- Sep 23, 202521 min
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby and Kedasha are joined by Keeley Hammond, a longtime maintainer of the Electron project. They explore the inner workings of one of the most widely used open source desktop...
- Sep 9, 202515 min
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy and Kedasha explore the rise of personal software tools built by developers for themselves, and shared with the world through open source. From command line apps to browser...
Episode #37
The Joy of Developer Education with CodeTV
Aug 26, 202523 minIn this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy, Abby, and Andrea are joined by developer advocate, educator, and creator of CodeTV, Jason Lengstorf. They uncover Jason’s journey through open source, from live coding...
Episode #36
Unlocking the Power of MCP
Aug 12, 202517 minIn this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy, Abby and Kedasha discuss the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its significance in the open source community, and how it enhances productivity and transparency in AI tools...
Episode #35
Meet the GitHub Podcast hosts
Jul 29, 202517 minIn this premiere episode of the GitHub podcast, hosts Cassidy, Abby and Kedasha introduce themselves and share their personal journeys into the world of open source. They discuss the importance of community in open...
The GitHub Podcast
This is the GitHub Podcast
Jul 29, 20250 minWelcome to the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub. Hosted by GitHub’s own Cassidy Williams, Abby Cabunoc Mayes, and...
Episode #33
Powering public goods
Aug 8, 202332 minIn this episode of The ReadME Podcast, hosts Neha Batra and Martin Woodward look back on their growth and learnings from the past season, from pronunciation struggles to hosting highs. Next, they share a fun story about...
Recent guests
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Jason Lengstorf
developer-focused media consultant, Learn With Jason
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Kelsey Hightower
Self Taught Technologist, Former Principal Engineer at Google Cloud and Speaker, Google
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Avi Press
Founder & CEO, Scarf
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Ben Johnson
Professor in History and the School of Environmental Sustainability, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
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