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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 4h

Tales from the jar side: Video generation with Sora 2, Making LLM's feel bad, Diane Keaton, and the usual social media stuff open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Video generation with Sora 2, Making LLM's feel bad, Diane Keaton, and the usual social media stuff

Did you hear about the sail boat that kept suspiciously winning races? Turns out it was rigged. (rimshot)

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 5d

Tuesday's Pragmatic Picks
40% off with code pragpicks

Write Better with Vale
Mockito Made Clear
Cruising Along with Java
Modern CSS with Tailwind, Second Edition
links in 🧵

Brian P. Hogan
@kousenit.com
Venkat Subramaniam
@noelrappin.com

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 7d

Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness

My body is a temple. Ancient, crumbling, cursed, and probably haunted. (rimshot)

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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · 12d

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released!

✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline
🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations
🛫 Integrated JFR support
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛑 Support for cancelling test execution
⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher
🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs

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JUnit Release Notes

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13d

40-40 is a scorigami. congrats everybody

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 14d

Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness
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Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness

This morning, I was walking down the street and I was hit by a violin, then a clarinet and then a french horn. I think it was an orchestrated attack. (rimshot)

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Erik C. Thauvin @erik.thauvin.net · 20d

Java 25: The Nice, the Meh, and…

#java #jdk

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 21d

Tales from the jar side: Scary Awesome AI, Sports announcers, Venkat comes to class, Conway's Game of Life, Thinking modes, and the usual social media nonsense
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Tales from the jar side: Scary Awesome AI, Sports announcers, Venkat comes to class, Conway's Game of Life, Thinking modes, and the usual social media nonsense

I went skydiving for the first time. This guy strapped himself to me, we jumped out of the plane and as we plummeted, he said: "So, how long have you been an Instructor?" (rimshot)

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 24d

48 hour FLASH! 45% off with code FLASHSALE
@pragdave felt like stirring things up - he just put nearly every title on sale!

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Moritz Halbritter @0.5ritter.de · 25d

Java 25 support is now available on start.spring.io.

Spring Initializr

Initializr generates spring boot project with just what you need to start quickly!

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 26d

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...

Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk...

Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/

#Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK #Java

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 27d

Tales from the jar side: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts, by open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts

ABBA is the only palindromic act to have a palindromic hit (SOS), in a palindromic genre (POP), on a palindromic album (ABBA) (rimshot, which sadly is not a palindrome)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 7

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness
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Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness

I've been searching for a carpentry pun that woodwork. Nailed it! Sadly, nobody saw it. (rimshots galore)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 3

My pleasure. I’m very happy to be a subscriber :)

Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 3

This collection of hard-won wisdom is exactly why @miketanier.bsky.social Is my favorite NFL writer 🏈

Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · Sep 3

Young quarterbacks essentially never get “a year or two on the bench to learn,” and never have. Saying a young quarterback could benefit from such treatment is like saying he would benefit from a visit by his fairy godmother.

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Secret Wisdom of the NFL

May the wise listen and add their learning. And may the discerning gain guidance.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 2

Using three AI agent tools at once gives me a much greater appreciation of daycare providers

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 31

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness
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Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness

A murder of crows? You mean caws of death? (rimshot)

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Hubert Klein Ikkink @mrhaki.com · Aug 30

A post about one of the new Groovy 5 features: using a range as argument for the List.subList method. blog.mrhaki.com/2025/08/groo... #Groovy #Groovy5

Groovy Goodness: Use Range With subList Method

A blog about Groovy, Java, Clojure, Asciidoctor, Gradle and other cool developer subjects.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 30

Social media is really dying for the latest news.

Oof, I said that wrong.

OR DID I?

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 30

After going back and forth with @anthropic.com support for days, I accidentally stumbled on the way to get my Claude Code installation working again:

> unset CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN

If nothing else works, try that

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Hubert Klein Ikkink @mrhaki.com · Aug 29

Apache Groovy 5 has been released. Time to brush up my Groovy Goodness series. Let's start with some new ways to create a new map based on an iterable: blog.mrhaki.com/2025/08/groo... (This is actually my 1500th blog post on Messages from mrhaki blog) #Groovy #ApacheGroovy

Groovy Goodness: Transform Iterable Into A Map

A blog about Groovy, Java, Clojure, Asciidoctor, Gradle and other cool developer subjects.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 30

Long Live also Patton Oswald as Vulcan Doug

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 30

It is clear that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was definitely not what I expected this week. Apparently one never knows with that show.

(LLaP) #stsnw

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 28

I'll be speaking at the O'Reilly AI Codecon: Coding for the Agentic World on September 9 at 11:00 AM ET. Join us for an intensive exploration of the tools, workflows, and architectures defining this next era of programming. Sign up now to save your spot—for free! bit.ly/4mjJVTE

Coding for the Agentic World - September 2025 - O'Reilly Media

The future of software development is here, and itâs agentic.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 24

Tales from the jar side: Groovy 5, Claude Code issues, NFJS, and the usual silly social media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Groovy 5, Claude Code issues, NFJS, and the usual silly social media posts

What do sea monsters eat for dinner? Fish and ships. (rimshot)

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