Ken Kousen
@kousenit.com
Author, speaker, software developer, and technical trainer. Java Champion, teaches Java, Groovy, Gradle, Kotlin, Android, Spring. Publishes "Tales from the jar side" newsletter and YouTube channel
Tales from the jar side: Bonjour from France, Practical AI Literacy, Agentic Commerce, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Bonjour from France, Practical AI Literacy, Agentic Commerce, and the usual Social Media silliness
I accidentally hit my head on a snare drum and now I think I’ve got a percussion. (rimshot, literally this time)
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Tales from the jar side: Marco Polo sheep, Cheating on exams, the Bozometer, scrcpy FTW, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Marco Polo sheep, Cheating on exams, the Bozometer, scrcpy FTW, and the usual Social Media posts
Why was Pavlov's hair so soft? He conditioned it. (rimshot)
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Tales from the jar side: Java documentary, Kimi K3, Chinese AI models market share, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Java documentary, Kimi K3, Chinese AI models market share, and the usual silly Social Media posts
It seems relevant this week to remember the term "millihelen", which is the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship. (rimshot)
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It's a bit disturbing how much more productive I am while listening to the 8-hour Severance music (www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...) in the background, but I suppose those macrodata files aren't going to refine themselves
Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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Tales from the jar side: Loop (shudder) Engineering, Robots are coming, Fable 5, Better Call Sol, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Loop (shudder) Engineering, Robots are coming, Fable 5, Better Call Sol, and the usual Social Media silliness
I told my son when I was a kid I got 10 8-track tapes in the mail for a penny. I don't know if he thought I was lying about 8-track tapes, what a penny was, what the mail was, or all of the above
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Tales from the jar side: Bad scheduling, OpenRouter, Not Going There, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Bad scheduling, OpenRouter, Not Going There, and the usual Social Media posts
Why don't anteaters get sick? Because they're full of antibodies (rimshot)
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Hey, Fable 5 is back. I'm teaching a class this evening that starts about 3 hours from now. I wonder if I can blow my entire weekly allocation by then? I'm guessing probably yes
Tales from the jar side: Claude Code: Up and Running, GPT 5.6 available (but not for you), OpenRouter in Spring AI and Claude Code, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Claude Code: Up and Running, GPT 5.6 available (but not for you), OpenRouter in Spring AI and Claude Code, and the usual silly Social Media posts
The current Pope is eligible to run for President of the United States. Just saying.
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Tales from the jar side: Just Fix It, Ponytail, Mole, ScrapeCreators, SentrySearch, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Just Fix It, Ponytail, Mole, ScrapeCreators, SentrySearch, and the usual silly Social Media posts
A photographer was tragically crushed when a massive block of cheddar fell on him. In fairness, the people he was photographing tried to warn him. (rimshot)
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Tales from the jar side: Anthropic tells a Fable and the Gov't stops it; The last30days and here.now Skills, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Anthropic tells a Fable and the Gov't stops it; The last30days and here.now Skills, and the usual Social Media posts
I once worked in a theater installing trapdoors. It was just a stage I was going through. (rimshot)
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Tales from the jar side: Website redesign, Graphify, Gemma4, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Website redesign, Graphify, Gemma4, and the usual Social Media posts
Whoever decided it was a good idea to put a “p” in “receipt” was an idiopt. (rimshot)
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50% off is a lot 🙂
The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅@pragprog.com · 2mo agoThe Stress Equation pragprog.com/titles/... Marcus Lagré The Healthy Programmer, Second Edition pragprog.com/titles/... Joe Kutner Help Your Boss Help You pragprog.com/titles/... @kousenit.com Guiding Star OKRs pragprog.com/titles/... @staffannoteberg.bsky.social
Tales from the jar side: jqwik Prompt Injection attack, Opus 4.8, Pangram AI detection, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: jqwik Prompt Injection attack, Opus 4.8, Pangram AI detection, and the usual Social Media posts
Why does the Norwegian navy put barcodes on its ships? So when they return to harbor, they can Scandinavian. (rimshot)
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@johnoreilly.dev Hi John. Did you get my DM on Twitter? If not, I have a question to ask. Could you send your email address to me at ken.kousen@kousenit.com?
Tales from the jar side: Decline of social media, Grok burns down the town, Skills + sub-agents, Subsidized AI, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Decline of social media, Grok burns down the town, Skills + sub-agents, Subsidized AI, and the usual Social Media posts
Cop asked me where I was between 5 and 6, but seemed puzzled when I said, "kindergarten." (rimshot)
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Tales from the jar side: Commencement, Claude Hooks and my Pixoo64, Anthropic confuses everybody, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Trinity Commencement, Claude Hooks and my Pixoo64, Anthropic confuses everybody, and the usual Social Media posts
Cleaning is much more fun when you imagine you're erasing all evidence of a murder. (rimshot)
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Tales from the jar side: Mythos, Anthropic makes a deal, Musk v Sam, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Mythos, Anthropic makes a deal, Musk v Sam, and the usual Social Media silliness
I don't mean to brag, but I got my highest score ever on the bathroom scale today. (rimshot)
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To celebrate some recent @apache.org releases (MINA & Commons RNG) & the imminent pre-release of @groovy.apache.org 6, let's create a stock ticker hub combining MINA's high-performance, high-scalability networking & Groovy's new async features: groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-... #groovylang
The Apache Groovy programming language - Blogs - Streaming Servers with Apache MINA and Groovy™ 6
Build a small streaming server on Apache MINA and refactor its IoHandler around Groovy 6
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Tales from the jar side: Web Clipper's Reader Mode, Senior Project Presentations, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Web Clipper's Reader Mode, Senior Project Presentations, and the usual Social Media silliness
I paid for a gym membership and the bank called to see if my credit card had been stolen. (rimshot)
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@bphogan.com Another great newsletter this week. Excellent job :-)
Tales from the jar side: GPT Image 2, Open Brain, Anthropic Blunders, Meta is Evil, and the usual Social Media Posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: GPT Image 2, Open Brain, Anthropic Blunders, Meta is Evil, and the usual Social Media Posts
My doctor says I have a deep fear of beanstalks and giants. It's called feefiphobia. (rimshot)
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My portrait, enhanced by GPT-Image-2. I'm thinking this should be my new profile picture
Tales from the jar side: Yet another cute animal, Anthropic's blizzard of releases, Gemini failure, Chess Mates, and the usual social posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Yet another cute animal, Anthropic's blizzard of releases, Gemini failure, Chess Mates, and the usual social posts
If anyone wants to sponsor me, I’ll be running a 0.002K this weekend to raise awareness for laziness. (rimshot)
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Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...
Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness
Old MacDonald subscribed to FarmGPT. AI, AI, Oh. (rimshot)
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You know you've been spending too much time with AI tools when you think you ought to take a vacation to Anguilla just for the domain name
My Claude Code course on the O'Reilly Learning Platform is tomorrow. Since Feb, there have been 62 new versions (!!). Claude Code added: Web, Dispatch, Remote Control, Ultraplan, Auto-Memory, Channels, Auto Mode, effort levels, /batch, /loop, scheduled tasks, and many command changes. Wow.
I heard an interesting observation today. One profession ideally suited to working with AI is journalists, because they are accustomed to dealing with unreliable sources
I'm sad for the UConn women, but South Carolina completely outplayed them. Oh well
Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated. I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.
