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Mike McQuaid

Homebrew project leader. CTO and Cofounder at Workbrew. ex-GitHub. Rude people blocker. Wife, sons, dog and Apple things lover. Don’t mention/email/DM me about Homebrew issues, please!

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5 episodes

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #32

Brewing up something for work

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2024-02-23T17:30:00Z #oss +2 🎧 18,896

Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTok’s addictive nature, Apple Vision Pro and its potential future, the maintenance of software, the swing back to old school web development, the value of telemetry in open source projects, Mike’s ongoing involvement in Homebrew and what they’re working on at Workbrew, Homebrew’s relationship with Apple, the importance of developer experience, and sooo much more.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #223

Homebrew and package management

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2016-10-07T14:00:00Z 🎧 41,954

Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.

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