Today we have a great guest to talk about his transition to, and current role as, a staff engineer: Mike McQuaid from GitHub! Mike is also a project leader at Homebrew, and brings a wealth of expertise and experience to the table, as well as the obvious added perspective that any engineer from the GitHub team would have. In our conversation, we get into a bit of Mike's journey up until now, the period of stepping up into the position of staff engineer, and how his time spent with open-source projects has influenced his other work. Mike gives us a good rundown of the different levels of leadership that exist at GitHub as well as painting a picture of the way he prefers to oversee engineers and projects. We talk about the healthiest ways to prioritize and tackle work and get into the sometimes murky waters of impact and value measurement. We ask Mike about what it is like working at GitHub where the people building things are also the ones using them, before discussing some thoughts on mentoring and sponsoring, OKRs, and the resources that have been most useful to Mike along the way. Tune in with us today to hear it all! LinksMike McQuaidGitHubHomebrew

Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring:Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Apple’s official Vision Pro page Sarah Dietschy: I Tried the Apple Vision Pro 👀 The Verge: Apple Vision Pro first look Valve Index WWDC Highlights Apple sure kicked Meta’s butt today, right? CmdrTaco on the iPod Day One Aaron Levie’s tweet Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Guests from Workbrew talk about challenges faced by MacAdmins with Homebrew, maintaining open source projects, balancing security & flexibility, managing software compliance, exploring Workbrew development, and enhancing security measures.

John Britton & Mike McQuaid, Co-Founders of Workbrew and involved in Homebrew, discuss how Homebrew has kept projects simple, value from contributors, ICP shift to dev teams. They explore challenges in maintaining Homebrew, community contributions, project governance, and managing enterprise challenges with Work Brew. They also touch on navigating project and company growth hurdles, sales conversations, and adapting to the startup landscape.

Mike McQuaid discusses open tabs, social media distractions, TikTok addiction, Apple Vision Pro, software maintenance, old-school web development, telemetry in open source, Homebrew's relationship with Apple, developer experience, and more at Workbrew