Today Quincy Larson interviews Mike McQuaid. He is a software engineer who previously worked at GitHub, and now serves as the lead maintainer of Homebrew, a Mac package manager used by tens of millions of developers. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked remotely as a Dev for nearly two decades.
We talk about:
What a career in open source really looks like
What skills are going to be most important moving forward?
How large open source infrastructure is actually written and maintained
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58tn2xb8kie
Link to our discussion:
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