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

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 12, Spring Shell, Open Liberty, Quarkus, Tomcat, JHipster, Gradle

This week's Java roundup for January 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: an update on milestone and GA release schedule ...

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app

By launching a desktop app, OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic’s popular Claude Code, which already offered a macOS version. Whether the desktop app makes sense compared to the existing interfaces ...
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Swift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source

After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single ...