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Job security for engineers is dead.

In case you missed it in Homebrew 5.1.0 release notes: we’re doing a…

Today I’m proud to announce the release of Homebrew 5.1.0.

Great post here from Andrew, particularly on why Homebrew doesn’t…

It’s hard to understate just how much more productive coding agents…

The year is 2068.

The author and I are convinced AI is net positive in engineering…

Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew…

Andrew nails here many parts of what actually makes OSS maintaining…

Great take about the cultural requirements to create “10x engineers”

What happened to RubyGems and what can we learn?

Package Management Learnings from Homebrew

How Homebrew Became Mac’s Package Manager with Mike McQuaid

Getting Shit Done in Institutions

The Most Important Skills Going Forward with CTO + Homebrew Maintainer Mike McQuaid

My Parenting “Screen Time” Philosophy

Performance Reviews, Done Right

Politics at Work Without Losing Your Soul

Beyond Engineering: Healthy Tension

POSSE, Blog and Feed Updates

Software Estimation Choices

Software Estimation Choices

When Things Go Wrong: How Leaders Rebuild Trust

Creating and Keeping Momentum

Good Things Take A Long Time

Good Things Take A Long Time

Psychological Safety vs. Telling the Truth

Bootstrapping gem.coop Governance

Bootstrapping gem.coop Governance

Minimum Viable Engineering Management

Minimum Viable Management

Minimum Viable Engineering Management

RubyGems Contribution Data with Homebrew’s Tooling

RubyGems Contribution Data with Homebrew’s Tooling

Why Open Source Maintainers Thrive in the LLM Era

Why Open Source Maintainers Thrive in the LLM Era

How and why I interview engineers for Workbrew

How and why I interview engineers for Workbrew

Two Years Building Workbrew, a Remote-First Enterprise Homebrew Startup

Two Years Building Workbrew, a Remote-First Enterprise Homebrew Startup

Ruby on (Guard)Rails

Ruby on (Guard)Rails

Our Intentions Don’t Matter

Our Intentions Don’t Matter

How I Procrastinate Less

How I Procrastinate Less

More Effective Remote Working

More Effective Remote Working

How To Find A Therapist

My Favourite Open Source Engineering Books

How To Find A Therapist

My Favourite Open Source Engineering Books

Some Financial Advice

Some Financial Advice

Entitlement in Open Source

Entitlement in Open Source

The Best Project

The Best Project

Saying No

Saying No

Hidden Complexities Of Software Estimation

Hidden Complexities Of Software Estimation

Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-plus engineers

Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-plus engineers

Open Source Economics (is not what you think)

Open Source Economics (is not what you think)

What is a Staff (or Staff-Plus or Principal) Engineer?

What is a Staff (or Staff-Plus or Principal) Engineer?

The Mentorship Diamond

The Mentorship Diamond

How I Get Things Done

How I Get Things Done

Robot Pedantry, Human Empathy

Robot Pedantry, Human Empathy

Types Of Remote Jobs

My Engineering Values

User and Feature Segmentation in Homebrew