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On The ReadME Podcast, we take a look behind the scenes of the most impactful open source projects and the developers who make them happen. Our guests are coding in public, creating firmware...

Episodes

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Tiny Wins, Big Impact: Accessibility, MCP, and the Future of Open Source at GitHub

In this year-in-review episode of The GitHub Podcast, Cassidy and Abby are joined by Helen Hou-Sandí, GitHub’s engineering manager for the A...

00:31:58Dec 30, 2025

LIVE from GitHub Universe: Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund

In this episode guest host Greg Cochran from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund brings together four maintainers who are helping secure the...

00:28:06Dec 16, 2025

LIVE from GitHub Universe: Angie Jones on Goose, MCP, and the Real-World Future of AI Agents

Abby sits down with Angie Jones, VP of Engineering at Block, live at GitHub Universe to talk about Goose, Block’s open source AI agent and r...

00:22:00Dec 2, 2025

LIVE from GitHub Universe: Privacy-First Smart Homes with Frenck from Home Assistant

In this episode, recorded live at GitHub Universe 2025, Andrea sits down with Frank “Frenck” Nijhof, a GitHub Star and project lead for Home...

00:25:02Nov 18, 2025

TypeScript’s Takeover, AI’s Lift-Off: Inside the 2025 Octoverse Report

Andrea and Kedasha sit down with data whisperer Jeff Luszcz, one of the wizards behind GitHub’s annual Octoverse report, to unpack this year...

00:37:15Nov 4, 2025

From Log4Shell to the Sovereign Tech Fund: Lessons in Open Source Sustainability

In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby sits down with Felix Reda, Director of Developer Policy at GitHub, and Christian Grobmeier, a lo...

00:31:27Oct 21, 2025

Mike McQuaid on the Greatest Lessons He’s Learned in Over 16 Years at Homebrew

Homebrew’s project lead Mike McQuaid joins Abby and Andrea to unpack what it really takes to sustain one of the most-used developer tools on...

00:32:08Oct 7, 2025

Making Desktop Frameworks More Accessible with Electron

In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby and Kedasha are joined by Keeley Hammond, a longtime maintainer of the Electron project. They ex...

00:20:46Sep 23, 2025

Building Tools and the Future of DIY Development

In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy and Kedasha explore the rise of personal software tools built by developers for themselves, a...

00:15:25Sep 9, 2025

The Joy of Developer Education with CodeTV

In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy, Abby, and Andrea are joined by developer advocate, educator, and creator of CodeTV, Jason Le...

00:23:18Aug 26, 2025

Unlocking the Power of MCP

In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy, Abby and Kedasha discuss the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its significance in the open sour...

00:17:18Aug 12, 2025

Meet the GitHub Podcast hosts

In this premiere episode of the GitHub podcast, hosts Cassidy, Abby and Kedasha introduce themselves and share their personal journeys into...

00:16:38Jul 29, 2025

This is the GitHub Podcast

Welcome to the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community...

00:00:29Jul 29, 2025

Powering public goods

In this episode of The ReadME Podcast, hosts Neha Batra and Martin Woodward look back on their growth and learnings from the past season, fr...

00:31:51Aug 8, 2023

(De)coding conventions

Programming languages are always in flux, and so is the way we use them. In this episode, we dive into the rise of TypeScript, with The Read...

00:42:04Jul 11, 2023

Bridging code and community

The influence of open source extends well beyond code. In this episode, we dive into the less-explored areas of the open source community, s...

00:41:11Jun 13, 2023

Kelsey Hightower—Present

In this bonus episode, we hear from Kubernetes superstar Kelsey Hightower. Diving into crucial elements like empathy in maintainership, succ...

00:46:23May 23, 2023

The open/closed equilibrium

This month, we consider the evolution of openness in open source. The ReadME Project’s Senior Editor, Mike Melanson joins hosts Martin and N...

00:41:02May 9, 2023

Fusing tech and progress

This month we’re exploring quantum leaps in technology—then, now, and what devs can do today to prepare for tomorrow. The hosts welcome Klin...

00:38:42Apr 11, 2023

Innovation without barriers

Here’s what’s in store for this episode: 00:00 - The hosts hear from Ed Summers, GitHub’s head of accessibility, about the meaning of disabi...

00:36:15Mar 14, 2023