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 ...
AlphaGalileo

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 ...
IEEE

Student Dress Code Monitoring using Machine Learning and Real Time Object Detection

Abstract: Professional and academic institutions should enforce discipline and uniformity in attire within their premises by maintaining adherence to organizational standards. Monitoring this is ...

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.
InfoWorld

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Target employees confirm leaked source code is authentic

Multiple current and former Target employees have reached out to BleepingComputer to confirm that the source code and documentation shared by a threat actor online match real internal systems. A ...