💥 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. ❤️ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opening-windows-worldwide-block-opensource-xsjae https://github.com/block/ospo/discussions/148

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! https://youtube.com/watch?v=IjXmT0W4f2Q

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. https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/augur-an-open-source-bitcoin-fee-estimation-library

Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/8rTliYrQ6Iw

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. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/06/27/everyday-usecases-ai

Learn more about goose: block.github.io/goose/

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: https://block.github.io/goose/community RSVP to Toronto MCP hack night: https://lu.ma/ruit2le5

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGce9T4E5Yw