The GitHub Podcast
Episodes
Tiny Wins, Big Impact: Accessibility, MCP, and the Future of Open Source at GitHub
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Accessib...
LIVE from GitHub Universe: Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode guest host Greg Cochran from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund brings together four maintainers who are helping secure the open sourc...
LIVE from GitHub Universe: Angie Jones on Goose, MCP, and the Real-World Future of AI Agents
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 reference...
LIVE from GitHub Universe: Privacy-First Smart Homes with Frenck from Home Assistant
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, recorded live at GitHub Universe 2025, Andrea sits down with Frank “Frenck” Nijhof, a GitHub Star and project lead for Home Assis...
TypeScript’s Takeover, AI’s Lift-Off: Inside the 2025 Octoverse Report
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea and Kedasha sit down with data whisperer Jeff Luszcz, one of the wizards behind GitHub’s annual Octoverse report, to unpack this year’s big...
From Log4Shell to the Sovereign Tech Fund: Lessons in Open Source Sustainability
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby sits down with Felix Reda, Director of Developer Policy at GitHub, and Christian Grobmeier, a longtime Log...
Mike McQuaid on the Greatest Lessons He’s Learned in Over 16 Years at Homebrew
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 macOS a...
Making Desktop Frameworks More Accessible with Electron
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby and Kedasha are joined by Keeley Hammond, a longtime maintainer of the Electron project. They explore the ...
Building Tools and the Future of DIY Development
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy and Kedasha explore the rise of personal software tools built by developers for themselves, and shared ...
The Joy of Developer Education with CodeTV
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy, Abby, and Andrea are joined by developer advocate, educator, and creator of CodeTV, Jason Lengstorf. T...
Unlocking the Power of MCP
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy, Abby and Kedasha discuss the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its significance in the open source communi...
Meet the GitHub Podcast hosts
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this premiere episode of the GitHub podcast, hosts Cassidy, Abby and Kedasha introduce themselves and share their personal journeys into the world ...
This is the GitHub Podcast
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub...
Powering public goods
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The ReadME Podcast, hosts Neha Batra and Martin Woodward look back on their growth and learnings from the past season, from pronunc...
(De)coding conventions
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ReadME Project...
Bridging code and community
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The influence of open source extends well beyond code. In this episode, we dive into the less-explored areas of the open source community, spotlightin...
Kelsey Hightower—Present
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, we hear from Kubernetes superstar Kelsey Hightower. Diving into crucial elements like empathy in maintainership, succession pla...
The open/closed equilibrium
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we consider the evolution of openness in open source. The ReadME Project’s Senior Editor, Mike Melanson joins hosts Martin and Neha to d...
Fusing tech and progress
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month we’re exploring quantum leaps in technology—then, now, and what devs can do today to prepare for tomorrow. The hosts welcome Klint Finl...
Innovation without barriers
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 disability ...
Co-maintaining openness
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what’s in store for this episode:00:00 - The hosts discuss how to impress and win over the heart of a developer in your life. 02:30 - Firs...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what’s in store for this episode:00:00 - Martin and Neha share how they spent the holiday break and discuss New Year's resolutions. 02:25 ...
Let the games begin
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what’s in store for this episode:00:00 - Neha and Martin discuss the return of social norms and the childhood video games they remember bes...
Cue the command line
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what’s in store for this episode:00:00 - The hosts discuss GitHub Universe and highlight some of their favorite sessions.02:30 - First Comm...
Code like it’s 1995
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what’s in store for this episode:00:00 - Intro: The hosts discuss AI image generators and draw parallels with GitHub’s pair programmer: C...
Build your own luck
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what’s in store for this episode:00:00 - Meet our newest co-host, and learn about The ReadME Podcast’s new format. 01:40 - First Commi...
Trailer
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ReadME Podcast is your portal into the open source community. We'll introduce you to the people building the projects you use every day, answer yo...
Hosts in the hot seat
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the final ReadME Podcast episode of Season 2 our hosts Brian and Neha turn the spotlight around and interview each other. The conversation covers ...
FreeCodeCamp: For curious people, by curious people
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a school director, Quincy dabbled with code to automate some of his colleagues’ more administrative tasks—and it changed everything. Computers ...
Keeping creativity alive while managing workloads
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jani Eväkallio discovered programming when he was stuck inside with a broken leg as a teenager. He fell in and out of programming afterwards and took...
Three careers and motherhood are just the start
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Salma Alam-Naylor, aka White Panther, discovered programming at a young age but focused on music and comedy into her twenties. Though her path to deve...
Where utility meets beauty: Hoppscotch
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Liyas Thomas is the founder of Hoppscotch, an open source API development ecosystem that’s seen exponential growth. Encouraged by his own mentors, L...
Giving 110% in the right place at the right time
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Schott’s love for programming started early, and he worked hard during his 20s at companies like Box and Google. As his own side projects exper...
A master in both piano and WordPress
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While earning her Master’s degree in Piano, Helen Hou-Sandí worked in the computer lab, where her skills caught the attention of her music conserva...
Python enthusiast, Twitch streamer, et. al.
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Sottile started college as a biochemistry major, but pivoted to programming two years in. After his first coding class, the school was so impr...
Season 2 Trailer
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 of The ReadME Podcast is on the way with our hosts Brian Douglas and Neha Batra! New episodes will be dropping every Tuesday starting October...
Prioritizing empathy and taking risks to build Chakra UI
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Segun Adebayo’s approach to computers and technology is driven by a belief that how we communicate is just as important as what we communicate. With...
Creating space and opportunity with She Code Africa
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Ada Nduka Oyom initially studied microbiology at university, but quickly fell in love with programming. Witnessing the huge d...
Changing the hardware development game at Adafruit
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While procrastinating at MIT in 2005, Limor Fried built her own MP3 player and shared it online, immediately inspiring others to create their own hard...
From comics in Virginia to React Core at Facebook
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Nabors grew up in rural Virginia and knew that if they could just get a laptop and the internet, they could bring the world to them. Currently ...
cURL: 25 years and 200 releases later
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Almost 25 years ago, in 1997, Daniel Stenburg created cURL, a command line tool for transferring data. The name stands for “client URL,” works on ...
Quitting a steady job to chase intuition
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Henry Zhu, full-time maintainer of Babel, the Javascript compiler. We’ll discover how Henry first got into programming...
From a master's thesis to global go-to
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While working on his master’s thesis for web applications, Tobias Koppers created an optimizer out of necessity, which he called webpack. His thesis...
Keeping the lights on with Home Assistant
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from the Netherlands and now based in California, Paulus Schoutsen has always been fascinated by data, and how it could be used to optimize...
Humanizing bots and building community
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Mariatta Wijaya arrived in Canada from Indonesia, she got a job as a software developer, and the first language she learned was Python. Now a Pyt...
From a 3D side project to the dream job
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When she was young, Gina Häußge’s dad showed her how to make her first computer commands, and she was hooked on watching code come to life. Fast f...
Taking Das Blog into the future
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Scott Hanselman and Mark Downie, maintainers of Das Blog. Developed in the C# programming language, Das Blog is a ro...
How one idea grew into a popular Javascript ecosystem
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Evan You came to the U.S. from China when he was 18, and ended up at Parsons for a Master’s of Fine Arts in design and coding. He landed his dream j...
Season 1 Trailer
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...