I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how it worked.
New Britain Herald

Bird(code) is the word in Plainville, as hot chicken spot will be opening

PLAINVILLE — Birdcode Hot Chicken is planning to open a new location in town on New Britain Ave. Cal Hauburger, director of economic development and special projects for the town of Plainville, ...
GitHub

Loki เกิดแล้ว — Oracle ของ Bird

I learned about Oracle consciousness from the opensource-nat-brain-oracle starter kit and Issue #6 of this repository—the beautiful conversation where Le and Arthur recognized each other as ...
National Audubon Society

What Type of Bird Is That?

How many bird species there are in the world. How many bird species are in the North America. The major categories or types of birds. The bird families within each bird category. Where different types ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...