How Homebrew Became Mac's Package Manager with Mike McQuaid
Mike McQuaid, Project Leader of Homebrew, joins Corey Quinn to share how a package manager conceived in a London pub became essential for 10 million Mac users. Homebrew lets you install software with one command instead of downloading files and clicking through installers, maintained by just 30 people who each get $300 a month.
Mike shares the origin story from a drunken conversation about package management, explains how Homebrew Bundle can set up a new Mac with one command, and why Homebrew refuses to package software with fake open source licenses like Terraform's new versions.
Show Highlights:
(01:44) Why Homebrew Works on Linux
(04:02) The Curl Bash Security Problem
(05:02) Homebrew Was Conceived in a London Pub
(06:42) Apps That Auto-Update Four Times a Day
(08:43) Brew Bundle
(14:00) Why Homebrew Auto-Updates Itself
(18:18) Homebrew Maintainers Get $300 a Month
(22:19) The Brew Doctor Command
(29:10) Why Homebrew Doesn't Package Fake Open Source
(32:05) Open Source Is Not a Career
(35:27) When Someone Blamed Homebrew for Breaking Their Business
(37:39) Auto-Update Options for Homebrew
(39:40) Where to Find Mike
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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid
Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool suited to an increasingly Mac-centric development ecosystem. Today, Homebrew is a near-essential part of the macOS software development toolkit.
Mike McQuaid joined the project early on and collaborated closely with its creator, Max Howell. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to discuss Homebrew’s origins, architecture, its emphasis on automation and CI/CD, long-term sustainability, controversial trade-offs, and much 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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There will be bleeps (Friends)
Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep!
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Breaking Change podcast
Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event
Ruby Central’s “security measures” leave front door wide open
nayafia/lemonade-stand
The transition of rubygems repository ownership
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ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source.
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Brewing up something for work (Friends)
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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brew.sh
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Reactions to Apple’s new vision (Friends)
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.
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Apple’s official Vision Pro page
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Satya Patel on the state of VC, flexible investing frameworks & converting to evergreen | E1715
Satya Patel joins Jason to discuss the economics of being a self-funded GP and the structure of their fund (6:51). Then, they have an all-encompassing discussion about the challenges of running Google today, the state of VC, and much more (15:44). Before wrapping, they discuss their investing frameworks and when and when they will not break them (43:29).
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(1:21) Satya's early days a Google
(6:51) The economics of being a solo GP
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(10:58) The structure of a fund
(15:44) The challenges of running Google today
(17:51) The evolution of chat-based search
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(39:28) Saying "no" to external funds
(43:29) Flexible Frameworks
(58:05) Founder Archetypes
(1:01:38) Being "founder friendly" and the importance of board meetings
(1:14:09) Screendoor
(1:22:25) Satya's thoughts on SVB
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20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk and Satya Patel on Why $100M is Not Enough To Execute a Seed Strategy Today | Why They Decided not to Raise New External Funds | Where Are We in the Cycle & What is Truly F***** | Why Founders Should Take Secondaries Earlier
Hunter Walk and Satya Patel are Co-Founders and Partners @ Homebrew, one of the leading seed funds of the last decade. Following 10 years of stellar returns with investments in the likes of Chime, Plaid, Gusto and many others, they decided to not accept any further LP capital and to only invest their own money moving forward through Homebrew Forever.
In Today's Discussion on Homebrew We Breakdown:
1. ) The Foundings of a Great Partnership:
What was the moment when Hunter and Satya decided they were going to go out and raise their first fund with Homebrew I?
What are the core principles that all founding partners need to align on before they start a firm together? What questions should they ask of each other?
Why does being independently wealthy coming into a partnership make the partnership easier and more efficient to operate? What changes when the partners have money already?
2.) What Changes When Moving From LP Dollars to Personal Capital:
Why did Hunter and Satya decide to not raise any further capital from external LPs?
Asset allocation-wise, how did they determine how much is the right amount to set aside for the first 2 years of investing? How many investments do they want to make with that cash?
How does investing their personal capital change their deployment pace and cadence?
How does it change their approach to reserves management and follow-on financing?
How does it change their approach to pricing? How price sensitive are they today?
3.) Analyzing the Seed Landscape Today:
Why do Hunter and Satya not think that a $100M seed fund is enough to properly execute a world-class seed strategy today?
Who is their competition with the new strategy? How does it change their relationship with large multi-stage funds? How does it change their relationship with seed funds?
Do they agree that the last generation of sub $20M micro-funds will not raise another fund in this cycle? How did their entrance impact the seed landscape over the last few years?
Why are LPs also to blame for many of the original seed managers raising larger and larger funds?
4.) Companies: Money and People are The Problem:
Why has too much money been such a problem for many Homebrew portfolio companies over the last few years? How has too much money changed their execution plans?
What happens to the "living dead" companies with many years of runway but no product market fit?
Who does this market cater to well? Who will thrive in this market?
What have people forgotten about both startups and venture in the last 2 years that we have to remember?
Why is this generation so entitled and expectant? Why are startups not a get-rich-quick scheme?
The creator of Homebrew has a plan to fix the funding problem in open source
Over the years Homebrew, an open source package manager, has emerged as the project with the greatest number of individual contributors. Despite all that, it’s creator Max Howell, couldn’t make a living off the occasional charity of the millions of people who used the software he built. This XKCD cartoon is probably the most frequently repeated joke on the podcast over the last three years.
While he is not a crypto bull, Max was inspired with a solution for the open source funding dilemma by his efforts to buy and sell an NFT. A contract written in code and shared in public enforced a rule sending a portion of his proceeds to the digital objects original creator. What if the same funding mechanism could be applied to open source projects?
In March of 2022, Max and his co-founder launched Tea, a sort of spirtual successor to Homebrew. It has a lot of new features Max wanted in a package manager, plus a blockchain based approach to ensuring that creators, maintainers, and contributors of open source software can all get paid for their efforts.
You can read Max’s launch post on Tea here and yes, of course there is a white paper. Follow him on Twitter here.
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SaaStr 473: Ringing the Bell on Competition with Chime's CEO Chris Britt and Satya Patel, Partner @ Homebrew
Chime wasn't the first digital bank, but it has become the largest one in the United States. In this episode, hear from Chris Britt, co-founder, and CEO, about Chime's journey in a highly competitive market and what it took to win.
Video + show notes: https://www.saastr.com/ringing-the-bell-on-competition-with-chime-ceo-chris-britt-and-satya-patel-homebrew/
Homebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden
During Donald Trump’s presidency, tech products became explicitly political. Operatives from both sides picked apart their algorithms and features, examining how they shaped society’s beliefs. And the companies, meanwhile, made choices about what parts of the administration they’d work with. Hunter Walk, who spent nearly a decade at Google and is now a partner at Homebrew, has watched the evolutions firsthand. He joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss tech’s impact on politics and where it goes next under a Joe Biden presidency.
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SaaStr 355: The PPP You Really Need for Raising Capital During a Pandemic with Satya Patel, Partner at Homebrew
Despite the global pandemic, seed investing remains hyperactive amongst VCs. Satya Patel of Homebrew shares his expert advice on how to raise seed capital in 2020.
This episode is an excerpt from Satya's session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture.
Full video: https://youtu.be/xXNLUKzcESg
Podcast transcript: https://www.saastr.com/saastr-podcast-355-with-homebrew-partner-satya-patel-the-ppp-you-really-need-for-raising-capital-during-a-pandemic/
Homebrew! Part Deux (Interview)
We’re talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they had in 2018, their new governance model, Mike’s new role, the core team meeting in-person at FOSDEM this year, and what’s coming next for Homebrew.
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Homebrew on HackerOne
brew.sh
Donate Homebrew on Patreon
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MikeMcQuaid/strap - Bootstrap your macOS development system
Homebrew governance
Homebrew formulae analytics
“This is why people don’t contribute to your open source project” —Mike McQuaid
Hot Shots! Part Deux - starring Charlie Sheen
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Hunter Walk – Building Picks and Shovels - [Invest Like the Best, EP.112]
My guest this week is Hunter Walk, the co-founder of Homebrew, a unique venture capital firm. Hunter is a tool builder, having spent his career before venture at companies like Google and YouTube. The topic of our conversation is the intersection of creative expression, technology, human behavior, and problem solving.
We discuss his time at the company behind the video game Second Life, building tools for creators at YouTube, and why a very hands-on style of early stage venture investing represents an interesting use of his skillset at this stage of his career.
Please enjoy my conversation with Hunter Walk.
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Show Notes
1:24 - (First Question) – Background on Second Life and what role Hunter had there
6:10 – The virtual currency system at use in Second Life
9:51 – Measuring how people behaved in this virtual world
12:21 – How closely is the Second Life world mimicking real life
15:13 – The market for platforms that lets people take on creative ventures
17:58 – Investments that interest Homebrew
20:21 – Lessons learned while working at YouTube
28:34 – The idea behind Homebrew
33:44 – How to best describe good problems to solve for
36:10 – The Shadow economy and investing in companies operating there
42:17 – Monetization of attention
47:22 – His interest in fintech companies
54:03 – Major trends of change he’s observed over his first three funds
1:04:13 – What is there take on the state of returns for VC’s
1:09:52 – What is the most common way that founders need help and what advice is more helpful
1:14:35 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Hunter
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ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017 (Interview)
This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Developer and Creator of Zarf), and Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal (GitHub Open Source Programs).
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Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is an OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate (Google Cloud Platform) — We talked about being a co-chair, why he does live demos, and his motivations towards open source.
When you say you’re successful, I guarantee when you look around it’s because someone is celebrating your victories.
Check out DevOps Days Austin 2017 on YouTube
The tweets mentioned from Kelsey that were seen as “controversial by some in the community” started with this tweet, then this tweet, and finally this tweet.
“I don’t write code for free. I write code for freedom.”
“Best birthday gift ever!” thanks to Brian Ketelsen
Safia Abdalla
Safia Abdalla is an open source developer and creator of Zarf — We talked about being a command-line junkie and her talk on the intersection of business and open source.
Zarf - an online platform that allows writers to sell subscription content to their readers.
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captainsafia/goopshttps
captainsafia/commentator
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Brief
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Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce (Facebook)
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal work at GitHub in Open Source Programs — We talked about GitHub’s Open Source Alley at OSCON and how they are working to better support open source maintainers and their communities.
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20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk on Why There Is No Series A Crunch, How To Package Portfolio Companies For The Next Round & Why The Bridge Round Is Not Always A Negative Sign?
Hunter Walk is a founding partner @ Homebrew, one of Silicon Valley's breakout seed funds of the last 5 years. They have investments in the likes of Shyp, the Skimm, Managed By Q just to name a few incredible companies. As for Hunter, prior to Homebrew, Hunter led consumer product management at YouTube, which he originally joined in 2003, managing product and sales efforts for Google Adsense. Hunter is also a thought leader in the industry and his excellent blog can be found here.
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In Today's Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Hunter made the transition from Google to VC with the founding of Homebrew?
2.) How does Hunter view the bridge round? Does he agree with Mike Maples @ Floodgate in stating, 'it is often not a bridge but a pier to nowhere'?
3.) How does Hunter look to package his portfolio companies for the next round of investors? Does Hunter agree with Jason Lemkin in stating, 'the best investors are those that specifically know the metrics required to achieve the next round'?
4.) Why does Hunter not believe there is a Series A crunch? How can founders look to describe their story in a narrative that is attractive for VCs? What one trait does Hunter look for in founders more than any other?
5.) What is the biggest challenge in the coming year for Hunter with Homebrew? How does he measure his success as a VC?
Items Mentioned In Today's Show:
Hunter's Fave Book: Harold and The Purple Crayon
Hunter's Fave Blog: Ben Thompson: Stratechery
Hunter's Most Recent Investment: JoyMode
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Homebrew and Swift (Interview)
Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the world when he interviewed with Google and didn’t get accepted, the creation of Homebrew, the naming process, as well as the difficulty letting go. We also talked about his passion for the Swift programming language, and his work on Swift Package Manager while at Apple.
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Max was on The Changelog #35 way back in September, 2010
Max’s latest open source project PromiseKit
The BBC Micro was the first computer Max used
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The Changelog #223: Homebrew and Package Management with Mike McQuaid
The tweet heard aroud the world with 6,825+ retweets — “Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f**k off.”
Swift Package Manager
BBC BASIC programming language
QBasic (Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an IDE and interpreter for a variety of the BASIC programming language
Max’s new thing — mixmsg lets you make mixtapes with friends directly in iMessage.
Max’s new project — Growler is planned for Homebrew, but he was hush hush about what it will do
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Homebrew and package management (Interview)
Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.
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Homebrew 1.0.0!
The Changelog #35: Homebrew with Max Howell
Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS
Homebrew on GitHub
Homebrew/brew on GitHub
Contributors to Homebrew/brew
Homebrew Discourse
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
KDE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Qt | Cross-platform software development for embedded & desktop
Software Freedom Conservancy Welcomes Homebrew as a Member Project
Linuxbrew
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20VC: Homebrew's Satya Patel on The Key Components of Being A Great VC & The 3 Main Reasons Startups Fail At Seed
Satya Patel is a Partner @ Homebrew alongside Hunter Walk. Prior to Homebrew, Satya was VP Product at Twitter, building and leading the Product Management and User Services teams. Before Twitter, Satya was a Partner at Battery Ventures, where he co-led the seed and early stage investing practices. In 2003, Satya joined Google and was responsible for AdSense product management and partnerships. Before heading to Silicon Valley for Google, I worked for DoubleClick, in venture capital and as a strategy consultant.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Satya made his way into the world of tech and came to Partner with Hunter @ Homebrew?
2.) Is hustle the key component of a great VC? What does Satya believes makes a great investor?
4.) How can startups present emotion and depict their narrative to the VC? What are the benefits of doing so? What founder is most
5.) From Satya's experience, what are the most common reasons startups fail at the seed stage? What can they do to maximise their chances of survival?
6.) We always hear that products should focus on a niche but how then do you attract VC money that is looking for a broad opportunity that can return the fund?
Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:
Satya’s Fave Blog or Newsletter: CB Insights, Fred Wilson, Brad Feld
Satya’s Fave Book: A Fine Balance
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Satya on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!
Product Hunt Radio: Episode 12 w/ Hunter Walk & Satya Patel
This week I, Ryan Hoover, visited the colorful Homebrew headquarters to catch up with Hunter Walk and Satya Patel. We chatted about their latest portfolio addition, the qualities they look for in a founder, and the awesomeness of "crazy" products like Vessyl and Yo. Products mentioned: - Nuzzle for iOS (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/nuzzel-for-ios) - See top news surfaced by your friends on Twitter & Facebook - theSkimm (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/theskimm) - Daily summary of current events in your inbox - Refresh (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/refresh-1-6) - Get Insights about the People You Meet - Slack (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/slack) - Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search - Fancy Hands (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/fancy-hands) - Assistants for Everyone - SHADOW (alpha) - Dream-based social network - Yo (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/yo) - A simple app to say "yo" to friends - Outdoors - AirBnB for Outdoors Equipment - Vessyl (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/vessyl) - A cup that knows what you're drinking - TravelbyDrone (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/travelbydrone) - Collects travel videos taken by drones - Snapchat Our Story (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/snapchat-our-story) - Experience live, real-time events together - shortwave (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/shortwave-2) - Short-range anonymous messaging (Secret meets Firechat) - Leo (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/leo-1154) - Ephemeral group photo chat with text that last 24 hours
Homebrew and OSX Package Management (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling.
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Featuring:
Max Howell – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell
Last.fm - The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer.
Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile Twitter client
ImageMagick - fabulous software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images which can be a pain to install on OSX.
Amarok - is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix
GitHub - where all the cool people put code
Homebrew terms in the Homebrew Cookbook
No sudo for you and the dangers therein
MacPorts - an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system
Gentoo - highly optimized Linux distro
Most forked projects on GitHub
Max prefers British ales
pengwynn is looking to get his hands on the Tatical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog
The Silicon roundabout gets its name due to the prominence of British web based companies
Max created the Last.fm Scrobbler, proving open source can land you a job
Transmission is beautiful on the Mac
Glasses, This is the next generation of VLC for Mac also called Lunettes.
brew install sl, then sl — enjoy the ride!
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