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Ken Kousen

@kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy
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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 foojay.social/@kenkousen on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Tales from the jar side: New video about Claude Code with any model, Some stats about my job, and the usual Social Media gags kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Tales from the jar side: New video about Claude Code with any model, Some stats about my job, and the usual Social Media gags
Most puns make me numb, but math puns make me number. (rimshot)
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Tales from the jar side: My Claude Code book, Stranger New Worlds, Jev and other AI stuff, and the usual Social Media silliness kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Tales from the jar side: My Claude Code book, Stranger New Worlds, Jev and other AI stuff, and the usual Social Media silliness
Satan: I don’t get it, but thanks for naming these eggs after me. (rimshot)
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Tales from the jar side: Star Trek week, OpenAI and the Millennium prize, AI Slop license, and the usual social media silliness kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Tales from the jar side: NVIDIA buys Hugging Face, Coding agent status lights, AI for academic success, Space Madness, and the usual Social Media posts kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Tales from the jar side: Imagination Library and Dolly, Run Claude Code with any model, Vote for Marlborough, and the usual social media sillness kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Tales from the jar side: Imagination Library and Dolly, Run Claude Code with any model, Vote for Marlborough, and the usual social media posts
Before was was was, was was is. (rimshot, with apologies to all non-native English speakers)
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Tales from the jar side: A Transporter Accident Scale, My Star Trek parody, Agentic commerce, and the usual social media nonsense kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
The Transporter Accident Severity Scale A complete(ish) catalog of Star Trek's worst beam-ups, graded 1–10 — plus the warranty clause, the killing-machine debate, and some 1990 prior art.... kousenit.org/2026/08/23/transporter…
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The Transporter Accident Severity Scale
A complete(ish) catalog of Star Trek’s worst beam-ups, graded 1–10 — plus the warranty clause, the killing-machine debate, and some 1990 prior art.
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
Tales from the jar side: Cruise pics, Anthropic watermarks, Westbrook retires, and the usual Social media silliness kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
Tales from the jar side: Color cover, Vacation pics, AI break out, and the usual Social media silliness, by kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
Tales from the jar side: Bonjour from France, Practical AI Literacy, Agentic Commerce, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
Tales from the jar side: Bad scheduling, OpenRouter, Not Going There, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
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 […]
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
Tales from the jar side: Just Fix It, Ponytail, Mole, ScrapeCreators, SentrySearch, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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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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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026
Tales from the jar side: Commencement, Claude Hooks and my Pixoo64, Anthropic confuses everybody, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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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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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
Tales from the jar side: Mythos, Anthropic makes a deal, Musk v Sam, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
Tales from the jar side: Web Clipper's Reader Mode, Senior Project Presentations, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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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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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026
Tales from the jar side: Otter reading Kotlin, MockHub and Agentic Commerce, Developing with AI, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026
Tales from the jar side: Another cute animal, Simon Willison on AI coding, my MockHub app, my Chuck Norris story, and social media stuff open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026
Tales from the jar side: Puppies and Mockito, Anthropic settlement, 1 MILLION tokens, Junie Air and CLI, FB and Moltbook: a Match made in Hades, and social media stuff […]
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
Tales from the jar side: A Nano Banana Skill, UI Testing made simple, Anthropic vs Pentagon, Anthropic vs China, DevNexus, and the usual Social Media silliness […]
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026
Tales from the jar side: My Trek/Java video, Gemini 3.1 lags, More OpenClaw drama, DevNexus, and the usual social media stuff open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
Tales from the jar side: RAG video, My clawdbot's wins and losses, the SaaSpocalype, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026
Tales from the jar side: Spring Boot 4, Agentic Java coding, Launch Library API, Spring AI Skills, Stand with Minnesota, and the usual social media nonsense […]
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
Tales from the jar side: AI and Jevons paradox, AI violinists, the JVM Weekly magnum opus, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Tales from the jar side: AI and Jevons paradox, AI violinists, the JVM Weekly magnum opus, and the usual social media silliness
Aliens are going to be so confused when they show up to overthrow our leaders and we offer to help. (rimshot)
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025
Tales from the jar side: Shock wave simulator, New hat + AI, Another lesson from It's A Wonderful Life, and more social media posts, by @kenkousen open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025
Tales from the jar side: False measures of success and happiness, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025
Tales from the jar side: Gemini CLI, Cursor AI, Trinity College events, and the usual silliness from social media open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025
Tales from the jar side: That don't impress me much, FIFA Peace Prize memes, Trashed pandas, and other social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025
Tales from the jar side: Spring AI, Vlogging through history, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025
Tales fromt the jar side: Gemini 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Antigravity, Wispr Flow, Death by Lightning, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025
Tales from the jar side: Vibe coding, AI companionship, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025
Tales from the jar side: P6Spy, Cursor for Java, Fun with timezones, Halloween gags, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
Tales from the jar side: Newsletter stats and NotebookLM, Cursor for Java, Claude Agent Skills, A chess tragedy, and the usual social media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
Tales from the jar side: The Developer Ecosystem 2025, Claude Code skills and plugins, Greatest Sho On Earth, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025
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/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025
Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025
Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025
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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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025
Tales from the jar side: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts, by open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025
Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025
Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/t…
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Ken Kousen @kenkousen.foojay.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
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
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