Mike McQuaid / is on Nostr

Homebrew project leader. CTO at Workbrew. ex-GitHub. Rude people blocker. Wife, sons, dog and Apple things lover.

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2024-10-01 13:23:51

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Discuss this on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708046

2024-10-01 13:23:51

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Discuss this on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708046

2024-10-01 13:22:36

Today, I’m proud to announce to announce @npub1mff…yh3g 4.4.0. The most significant changes since 4.3.0 are official macOS Sequoia (15) support, INSTALL_RECEIPT.jsonfiles for casks, macOS Monterey (12) deprecation and various other deprecations.
https://brew.sh/2024/10/01/homebrew-4.4.0/

2024-09-13 11:31:53

It sucks to talk shit about people behind their back.
You know what sucks more, though? Saying how great someone is behind their back and not telling them that directly.
Take 2 minutes right now to send a message to someone you appreciate or admire and haven’t told yet.

2024-08-19 14:00:54

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This avoids spending too much time in discussion, maintains forward progress while allowing everyone to be heard.
Credit to my first great manager, @npub1xny…yqv6, for explaining this way of working to me.

2024-08-19 14:00:31

Are you a technical leader? Do you want a framework to make decisions you have existing opinions on quickly but without being overly authoritarian? Try this:
1. Ask the person/team what they think is the best course of action. If they agree: do that.
2. If they disagree: explain why and have a time-boxed discussion (e.g. 24 hours) where all parties are heard.
3. If the time-box is met and no agreement is reached: you make the decision.

2024-06-03 13:05:29

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@npub1x32…y6jg I always insta-sold my vested MSFT. Lower returns, for sure, but means I have a bunch of cash.

2024-05-29 11:32:30

Another day, another podcast: this was a great conversation about the intersection between open source and starting a company:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ossstartuppodcast/episodes/E135-Riding-the-Homebrew-Wave-e2k761f/a-abadbcv

2024-05-29 11:27:53

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@npub1n0c…y8w4 the sequel to snakes on a plane: takes on a train

2024-05-29 11:27:20

This is a particularly good take because the bottom two, intentionally or not, have implicit critiques of the (wrong) idea that we "just need to pay the maintainers!” and that will solve most OSS problems
https://hachyderm.io/@forrestbrazeal/112519586734504913

2024-05-21 14:53:20

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Streaming in 8m on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/workbrew), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY31NQP4JPk) and Facebook/Instagram (links on https://workbrew.com/homebrew-turns-15)
See you there! 🍺

2024-05-20 19:48:27

Homebrew turns 15 years old tomorrow! (20th May 2024).
Join me, Mike McQuaid, Homebrew Project Leader and CTO of Workbrew, and Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and CEO of pkgx, as we reminisce about Homebrew, package management, commercial open source, what we're doing now and answer some questions from folks who join the stream.
Streaming on Twitch and (hopefully) YouTube at 16:00 BST (GMT+1) / 11:00 EST (GMT-4). Links will be provided before the start at: https://workbrew.com/homebrew-turns-15

2024-05-16 13:39:41

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@npub1p7c…3xp5 always choose gym over toots!

2024-05-16 03:26:45

New compulsion discovered: while I piss in a Toto urinal I must hum the main riff from Africa.

2024-05-15 05:46:25

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@npub17vm…ey4a thanks pal!

2024-05-15 02:15:39

Animated Ruby Quines in #rubykaigi keynote from Tomoya Ishida 🤯
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/442/693/004/547/600/original/d92230640e64001a.mp4

2024-05-14 04:23:19

Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 4.3.0. The most significant changes since 4.2.0 are SBOM support, initial bottle attestation verification, new command analytics and uninstall autoremove by default.
Read more at https://brew.sh/2024/05/14/homebrew-4.3.0/ and discuss on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40351586.

2024-05-12 12:49:17

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@npub1azh…zrpz MIDI so you can plug in your keyboard and party the rest of the flight away