Christian Taylor
@DeOpenSourceGuy
Just became a father- and all opinions are my own
Today, Cardano takes another historic step! Under our new three-body governance model, citizens now have the power to approve treasury funding — and today, that power is being exercised to support the very foundation of our ecosystem: open source. The Paid Open Source Model…
🔥 Y’all out here sleeping on the Open Source Cowboy Podcast like it’s just another tech ramble? Nah. We’re serving raw, unfiltered open source game you won’t find in your day job docs. Wake up and ride. 🤠🎙️ The guest lineup? Stacked: 💥 Ep 4 (Live): Silona Bonewald —…
Hey @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was.
I want to thank all DReps for participating and having your voices known and special shoutout to those that don’t even has the biggest delegation. Obviously I’m watching the OSC budget like a hawk, and my day was made on day this week that in the morning it was at 39% and at the…
If you maintain a governance tool or wallet, please consider integrating this CIP by @phil_uplc. It's the most uncontroversial and easiest to implement way to incentivize dReps that I've seen so far. No ledger changes required! cips.cardano.org/cip/CIP-0149
when you're bored....
Weekly Recap of content you missed: 1) Episode 5 of OS Cowboy Podcast Teaser, full episode coming this Thursday July 31: youtu.be/slhoPMw_SqY?fe… 2) Episode 6 of Podcast bookmarked for Aug 14, save the date! youtu.be/Po6-H88IJJs?fe… 3) @SociousDAO Project Spotlight just went live…
Weekly Recap of content you missed: 1) Episode 5 of OS Cowboy Podcast Teaser, full episode coming this Thursday July 31: youtu.be/slhoPMw_SqY?fe… 2) Episode 6 of Podcast bookmarked for Aug 14, save the date! youtu.be/Po6-H88IJJs?fe… 3) @SociousDAO Project Spotlight just went live…
Great to see Pragma expanding that open source muscle! Congrats to @BeatriceAnihiri and @stakenuts !
PRAGMA welcomes two new voices from the Cardano community to our leadership team. We’ve appointed these outstanding contributors to the PRAGMA Board, each bringing deep experience in open source, governance and community building. 👇
Everyone who is building open-source software or wondering how they should be building commercial open-source software (COSS) and potential business models related to this, stayed tuned, got something in the pipeline for yall!
Always great to connect with @seira_yun on @SociousDAO , give this spotlight a listen!
Our Newest Project Spotlight is here! Learn more about @SociousDAO and what they bring to the continued development and evolution of the Cardano ecosystem. youtu.be/SCrHhoaU_x0
Do yall know if there are any AI assistants that help train or “vibe code” with Haskell? Not sure if that’s possible or not
📣 Calling all Cardano open source teams: Intersect’s Open Source Office and Open Source Committee is launching a Support Service Catalog — and we need your input. 💬 Whether you need help with: 🧠 Open source strategy 📢 Marketing & promotion 👥 Community building 📚 Docs &…
🤠 Cowboy Hat Fact #2: In the Old West, a cowboy’s hat on a fence post wasn’t just fashion—it was communication. No words. No knocking. Just the silent signal: “I’m nearby. Don’t touch my stuff.” That’s cowboy culture—trust, signals, and showing up. Just like open source.…

I am putting together a tooling working group to help work on what projects the Community depends on and what should be supported from OSC budget to this endeavor, for those interested in participating please let me know. I won't drop meeting link here, but call will found on our…
🎬 Saddle up — the Open Source Cowboy Podcast Episode 5 is on the horizon! We dug into: 🧠 Open Source Program Offices 📈 Inflection Point for Cardano for market adoption ⚙️ Functional programming at scale 🤖 AI's role in developer onboarding Watch the teaser 👇…
What does Intersect actually do?
Just a little something to answer a general question commonly asked, "What does Intersect actually do?" Whether you agree with or don't, you gotta admit the beat gets stuck in your head 😜 youtube.com/shorts/x0CY76P…
Just a little something to answer a general question commonly asked, "What does Intersect actually do?" Whether you agree with or don't, you gotta admit the beat gets stuck in your head 😜 youtube.com/shorts/x0CY76P…
All 39 Treasury withdrawals now on-chain! Using this moment to call out one very special individual in my team who has put in a HUGE shift this week - @Ryun1_ Thanks everyone, and happy voting.