Introducing Community All-Stars ⭐ A very special update: ALL contributors who’ve helped improve goose, from other teams across Block to open source contributors, you are all spotlighted in the Community All-Stars program! Complete with a special homepage 💖 Every month, it's important to take a moment and recognize the team effort behind every release, update, and improvement to goose. So, in addition to the amazing top 5 Community Stars and Team Stars every month... 👀 Now EVERYONE who contributes will be part of the monthly leaderboard! 🏆 Because every single contribution is important. From suggesting new features to always supporting others, thank you so much for being part of the open source community!
🪿 Next up in the Great Goose Off... Can a manager really out-goose their own teammate? Watch Darron Johnson and Jon Ferm flex their localization skills in a vibe coding face-off. 📅 July 10 at 10AM ET/ 1PM ET 📺 http://linktr.ee/blockopensource image
💥 Fifth edition is here! Grab your favorite beverage and take a break with this special recap-montage on how goose on Windows & Linux became a reality, the latest hack nights and where we're heading to next, plus all the inspiring community contributions in between that led to a brand new Community All-Stars program. Be sure to subscribe to get new editions direct to your inbox every month. ❤️ image
Vibe coding has certainly taken hold but often ends in a ton of refactoring. I came up with the idea of "vibe prompting" a few months back to improve the starting point, saving time and tokens/money. I made a Flight School video out of it, let me know what you think!
Poor fee estimates waste Bitcoin users' money, sometimes 10x more than necessary. We built Augur, a mempool-based fee estimator that cuts costs without compromising reliability. It's now open source. Used in production by Cash App. Available for everyone.
Today’s special: Goose à la Workflow. Had an amazing AI workflow? Good luck repeating it. Agentic workflows rarely behave the same way twice. Goose recipes let you lock in your exact setup so you can reuse it or share it anytime. 👨🏽‍🍳 Let’s cook!
No flashy demo today. Just Goose saving someone hours by automating 5 tedious, everyday tasks... each in under a minute. This is the AI we were promised.
With goose, you can talk to your Snowflake data like a friend. Natural language in, Cortex insights out, powered by Snowflake’s new MCP server and your open source AI agent. ❄️ Try it out: https://medium.com/snowflake/getting-started-with-goose-using-snowflake-and-mcp-4e6c78ca0e19
📺 This week on Block Open Source events: - tomorrow, The Great Goose Off returns, Creator Edition, with Rizel Scarlett, Alexander Hancock & Spencer Martin; - also tomorrow, AI Agent Hack Night with MCP in Toronto! As part of Toronto Tech Week with W. Ian Douglas from Block, Lazar Nikolov from Sentry, & Shivam Ajmera from Temporal. Links ⤵️ Check out the upcoming events calendar: RSVP to Toronto MCP hack night:
If you want to run multiple AI agents in parallel, Solomon Hykes believes isolated environments are essential. Otherwise, you're just babysitting bots. Full video in the thread 🧵