Homebrew is a popular package manager that streamlines the installation of open-source software on macOS. It emerged to meet the need for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool tailored to the Mac-centric development world. Homebrew is now almost indispensable in the macOS software development toolkit.
Mike McQuaid became involved early and worked closely with its creator, Max Howell. He appears on the podcast with Kevin Ball to explore Homebrew’s origins, architecture, focus on automation and CI/CD, long-term sustainability, controversial trade-offs, and more.
Kevin Ball, or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.
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