Inside Modern Software Engineering with Homebrewâs Mike McQuaid
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Sami is back this week with Mike McQuaid as they take a deep dive into the importance of open source maintainers.
Mike McQuaid
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CTPO, Project Leader of @MacHomebrew, maintainer since 2009
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- Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn't money: it's maintainer motivation.
- Memories of my friend and former GitHub coworker Jason Rudolph, who died in May 2026.
- Why is Windows 11 so disliked by programmers â and can Microsoft do anything to change things? Interviewed by Keumars Afifi-Sabet on ITPro. âStop trying to overrule my preferences on how to use my computer.â
