Exploring Homebrew and Sponsors Highlights

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A deep dive into the world of homebrew with insights from developer Mike on maintenance and development. The chapter also features sponsor highlights including promotional codes from Century and the utility of Image Proxy by Dribble, along with commendations for Fly.io and Type Sense.

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.

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