https://coreydaley.dev/tags/obsidian/Recent content in Obsidian on Corey DaleyHugoen-usThu, 19 Mar 2026 14:15:00 -0400https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/is-open-source-dead-in-the-age-of-ai/Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:15:00 -0400https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/is-open-source-dead-in-the-age-of-ai/<p>Open source was never really about the license. It was about economics — no single developer could build everything alone, so you shared the source and let the community help carry the load. AI is making that trade less necessary.</p> <p>With Claude Code and Codex, a solo developer can now ship and maintain classes of software that once required a contributor community. A new model is taking shape: users file issues, maintainers decide what&rsquo;s worth building, AI does the implementation. No PRs to review, no design debates in GitHub comments. Meanwhile, tools like Obsidian prove free software doesn&rsquo;t require open source — and have for years. The question is no longer whether to open source, but which parts of the open source bargain still matter to you.</p> <p>But here&rsquo;s the counterintuitive part: AI also makes some open source values more important, not less. When software can be shipped and abandoned faster than ever, forkability, auditability, and portability become user protections that matter more. The future isn&rsquo;t open vs. closed — it&rsquo;s deliberate vs. reflexive.</p> <p>Read more at <a href="https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/is-open-source-dead-in-the-age-of-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/is-open-source-dead-in-the-age-of-ai/</a> </p>https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/obsidian-ai-agent-sidebar-plugin/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:45:00 -0400https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/obsidian-ai-agent-sidebar-plugin/<p>I was already paying for Claude, Codex, and several other AI services when Notion started pushing its own AI add-on. The problem wasn&rsquo;t just the price — it was that Notion AI couldn&rsquo;t talk to any of the tools I already had, and my workflow had become a copy-paste treadmill between my notes and my agents. So I switched to Obsidian and hit the same wall: no native way to use your own AI.</p> <p>I built the Obsidian AI Agent Sidebar plugin — an open source tool that brings Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and any OpenAI-compatible server directly into your Obsidian sidebar, with real vault read/write access. Developed using agentic engineering and the dark factory method, it&rsquo;s the integration I needed and couldn&rsquo;t find.</p> <p>What would you build if the tool you needed simply didn&rsquo;t exist yet?</p> <p>Read more at <a href="https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/obsidian-ai-agent-sidebar-plugin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/03/obsidian-ai-agent-sidebar-plugin/</a> </p>