Ken Kousen
@kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy
Software developer, technical trainer, and author of Mockito Made Clear, Modern Java Recipes, Help Your Boss Help You, Gradle Recipes for Android, Kotlin […]
[bridged from https://foojay.social/@kenkousen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://foojay.social/@kenkousen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Tales from the jar side: Spring AI, Vlogging through history, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-ai-60b?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Tales from the jar side: Spring AI, Vlogging through history, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-ai-60b?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales fromt the jar side: Gemini 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Antigravity, Wispr Flow, Death by Lightning, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-fromt-the-jar-side-gemini-30?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tales fromt the jar side: Gemini 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Antigravity, Wispr Flow, Death by Lightning, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-fromt-the-jar-side-gemini-30?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Vibe coding, AI companionship, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-vibe-coding?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Tales from the jar side: Vibe coding, AI companionship, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-vibe-coding?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: P6Spy, Cursor for Java, Fun with timezones, Halloween gags, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-p6spy-cursor?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Tales from the jar side: P6Spy, Cursor for Java, Fun with timezones, Halloween gags, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-p6spy-cursor?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Newsletter stats and NotebookLM, Cursor for Java, Claude Agent Skills, A chess tragedy, and the usual social media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter-d0d?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Tales from the jar side: Newsletter stats and NotebookLM, Cursor for Java, Claude Agent Skills, A chess tragedy, and the usual social media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter-d0d?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: The Developer Ecosystem 2025, Claude Code skills and plugins, Greatest Sho On Earth, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-the-developer?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
October 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Tales from the jar side: The Developer Ecosystem 2025, Claude Code skills and plugins, Greatest Sho On Earth, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-the-developer?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Video generation with Sora 2, Making LLM's feel bad, Diane Keaton, and the usual social media stuff https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-video-generation?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
October 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Tales from the jar side: Video generation with Sora 2, Making LLM's feel bad, Diane Keaton, and the usual social media stuff https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-video-generation?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-the-of-ai?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-the-of-ai?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
September 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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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September 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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 […]
Tales from the jar side: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts, by https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-joy?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
September 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Tales from the jar side: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts, by https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-joy?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon-d59?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon-d59?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
September 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon-d59?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon-d59?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
August 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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! https://bit.ly/4mjJVTE
August 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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! https://bit.ly/4mjJVTE
Tales from the jar side: Groovy 5, Claude Code issues, NFJS, and the usual silly social media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-groovy-5?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
August 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Tales from the jar side: Groovy 5, Claude Code issues, NFJS, and the usual silly social media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-groovy-5?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Claude Code status line, Spring redirects (or not), OCP employees, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-claude-code-181?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Tales from the jar side: Claude Code status line, Spring redirects (or not), OCP employees, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-claude-code-181?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
This week’s Tales from the jar side includes info about GPT-5 programmatic access, the new gpt-oss models, more Suno AI generated theme songs for my channel, and the usual social media silliness […]
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foojay.social
August 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This week’s Tales from the jar side includes info about GPT-5 programmatic access, the new gpt-oss models, more Suno AI generated theme songs for my channel, and the usual social media silliness […]
Tales from the jar side: More theme song variants, Veo 3 Fast videos, Gradle 9, my WNBA team is leaving, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-more-theme?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-more-theme?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
August 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Tales from the jar side: More theme song variants, Veo 3 Fast videos, Gradle 9, my WNBA team is leaving, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-more-theme?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-more-theme?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: My visit to the Star Trek museum, UberConf coming, New Tftjs theme song, An AI opera, and the usual social media nonsense https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-my-visit?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
July 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Tales from the jar side: My visit to the Star Trek museum, UberConf coming, New Tftjs theme song, An AI opera, and the usual social media nonsense https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-my-visit?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Junie live stream, MCP video and blog post, MCPs with Claude Code, and the usual silly skeets
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-live?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-live?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
June 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tales from the jar side: Junie live stream, MCP video and blog post, MCPs with Claude Code, and the usual silly skeets
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-live?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-live?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I finally understand what MCP is for:a blog post based on my recent YouTube video, with updates and more info
https://kousenit.org/2025/06/22/i-finally-understand-what-mcp-is-for/
https://kousenit.org/2025/06/22/i-finally-understand-what-mcp-is-for/
Unlocking AI: How MCP Transforms Developer Workflows
Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) transforms complex AI tool interactions into simple conversations for developers.
kousenit.org
June 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I finally understand what MCP is for:a blog post based on my recent YouTube video, with updates and more info
https://kousenit.org/2025/06/22/i-finally-understand-what-mcp-is-for/
https://kousenit.org/2025/06/22/i-finally-understand-what-mcp-is-for/
Tales from the jar side: From Google to Slidev, the Psychologically Disturbed Song Cycle, more Junie vs Claude Code, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-from-google?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
June 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tales from the jar side: From Google to Slidev, the Psychologically Disturbed Song Cycle, more Junie vs Claude Code, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-from-google?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Junie vs Claude Code, I finally get what MCP is for, I contribute to LangChain4j, and the usual toots and skeets
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-vs?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-vs?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
June 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Tales from the jar side: Junie vs Claude Code, I finally get what MCP is for, I contribute to LangChain4j, and the usual toots and skeets
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-vs?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-vs?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: "Star Trek: The MCP Server", two new blog posts, a new video, a Junie live stream, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-star-trek?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
June 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Tales from the jar side: "Star Trek: The MCP Server", two new blog posts, a new video, a Junie live stream, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-star-trek?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Sure, I’ll sign your ebook
Between 2013 and 2023, I wrote a series of books for Manning, O'Reilly, and the Pragmatic Bookshelf: My six books Every once in a while, someone would come up to me at a conference with a copy of one and ask me to sign it. I'd make some gag about that ruining the […]
Between 2013 and 2023, I wrote a series of books for Manning, O'Reilly, and the Pragmatic Bookshelf: My six books Every once in a while, someone would come up to me at a conference with a copy of one and ask me to sign it. I'd make some gag about that ruining the […]
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foojay.social
May 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sure, I’ll sign your ebook
Between 2013 and 2023, I wrote a series of books for Manning, O'Reilly, and the Pragmatic Bookshelf: My six books Every once in a while, someone would come up to me at a conference with a copy of one and ask me to sign it. I'd make some gag about that ruining the […]
Between 2013 and 2023, I wrote a series of books for Manning, O'Reilly, and the Pragmatic Bookshelf: My six books Every once in a while, someone would come up to me at a conference with a copy of one and ask me to sign it. I'd make some gag about that ruining the […]