The GitHub Podcast

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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 Accessibility Engineering team and lead developer in the WordPress project.They dig into Maintainer Tiny Wins, a series of two week long time ... Show more

. 31min 58sec

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 open source projects we all depend on: Christian (Log4j/Log4Shell), Carlos (GoReleaser), Michael (EVCC), and Camila (ScanAPI) to unpack what ... Show more

. 28min 6sec

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 reference implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Angie shares how Goose went from an internal tool to an open source project tha ... Show more

. 22min 0sec

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 Assistant, one of the most active open source projects on the platform. They unpack how millions of households run privacy-first automat ...

. 25min 2sec

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’s biggest shifts. They get into why TypeScript overtook Python on GitHub, how AI-assisted “vibe coding” and agentic workflows are reshap ...

. 37min 15sec