Notices by Mike McQuaid (mikemcquaid@mastodon.social)

Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on.

No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.

https://ossresistance.com

Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.

There’s nothing Homebrew can do about this. Google needs to fix it.

Please put me in contact with someone at Google high enough level to actually fix it.

https://github.com/Homebrew/install/issues/1074

🔥The great advice in these blog posts is rarely said out loud by anyone:

https://www.seangoedecke.com/dangerous-advice/

This matches my experience of what I had to learn to get promoted to principal engineer at GitHub.

If you follow them: 50% chance you will get promoted, 50% you'll get fired. 🎲

This buried “Choosing the right type of tasks to give to Copilot “ nugget in @GitHub Copilot agent is pretty good advice applicable to most AI agent use:
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/tutorials/coding-agent/get-the-best-results#choosing-the-right-type-of-tasks-to-give-to-copilot

Wrote a piece for @osi based on my experiences in open source over the last 20 years (!).

On AI:

> I think LLM AI tooling has the potential to be positive for open source but the jury is still out for now. To be really effective: you need to ensure you do extensive review of any AI generated output. Who are some of the best people in the world at extensive code review? Open source maintainers. This is why I think it could be useful for those folks.

I left GitHub after 10 years to cofound Raise.dev. After an early failed experiment building IoT developer tools, we pivoted and built Workbrew: an enterprise-friendly layer over Homebrew, a project I’ve maintained since 2009 and led since 2019. Two years in, we’ve raised VC funding, built a remote team, and have happy, paying customers. Here’s what I learned so far:

https://mikemcquaid.com/two-years-building-workbrew-a-remote-first-enterprise-homebrew-startup/

Last year I started a company, Workbrew, to provide the missing features and support for companies using Homebrew.

Workbrew is now available in private beta. It provides MDM integration, fleet configuration and remote brew command execution.

All our customers get hands-on bespoke support from the longest-running Homebrew maintainer (me!).

Happy to answer any questions here, via DM or book a call with us https://workbrew.com/demo

Please boost or share with anyone who might be interested. <3