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Mike McQuaid

MikeMcQuaid
Edinburgh, Scotland

I lead🍺 Homebrew and spend a chunk of my week maintaining, mentoring, and building the tooling that keeps developers fast. I also create utilities like 👢 Strap and write an open source book about 📖 Git. Sponsorship lets me trade billable consulting hours for open-source time—triaging issues, reviewing PRs, improving CI/CD, and mentoring maintainers.

@MikeMcQuaid

Fund an extra day/month of OSS work (reviews, fixes, docs) and regular public updates on what shipped.

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@aiusepsi
@ryansch
@divideby0
@muttmutt
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Featured work

  1. Homebrew/brew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

    Ruby 44,869
  2. MikeMcQuaid/strap

    👢 Bootstrap your macOS development system.

    HTML 2,281
  3. Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

    💀 Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew)

  4. MikeMcQuaid/GitInPractice

    📖 An opinionated intermediate/advanced Git book

  5. Homebrew/homebrew-core

    🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

    Ruby 14,643
  6. Homebrew/homebrew-cask

    🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries

    Ruby 21,557

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🔐 All above and one 60-min private advisory call per quarter about Homebrew workflows, CI, AI-assisted reviews, or OSS strategy (can sign an NDA if needed).