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.

Quincy Twp. residents object to battery storage facility

QUINCY TWP., MI — Residents along Boone Road east of Quincy voiced objections to a proposed battery storage facility at Tuesday's Feb. 4 township board meeting. Residents questioned developer EDF ...
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IMDEA Software will install the first Spanish mirror of Software Heritage

IMDEA Software will host the first Spanish mirror of Software Heritage, the world’s largest publicly available archive of source code. The ...

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh offline control, rate limits, and the rising cost of AI coding tools.
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Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
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Exclusive: India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul

NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures, prompting ...