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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 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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paulk-asert.bsky.social @paulk-asert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am giving numerous @groovy.apache.org & AI talks at upcoming @apache.org events. I hope to see you there. Take your pick: armadillo/furled sails, or full sails/startled armadillo! Why not both! communityovercode.apache.org

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 04/09/2026

I think this week's Strange New Worlds episode gave me Space Madness

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 23/08/2026

And here I thought a Level 5 Transporter Accident was when you beamed Kirk's pants three feet to the left. Maybe that's only Level 4

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 23/08/2026

After thinking about it for a few days, my opinion about the puppet episode of SNW is that the writers probably shouldn't have shot an arrow into the eye of that cyclops. Just saying

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 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/kenkouse...

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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

Why was Pavlov's hair so soft? He conditioned it. (rimshot)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 17/07/2026

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

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Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV

YouTube video by Apple TV

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 01/07/2026

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

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 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 open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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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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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 25/05/2026

@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?

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paulk-asert.bsky.social @paulk-asert.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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

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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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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 02/05/2026

@bphogan.com Another great newsletter this week. Excellent job :⁠-⁠)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 23/04/2026

My portrait, enhanced by GPT-Image-2. I'm thinking this should be my new profile picture

My picture, with a black hat and white beard, enhanced by GPT-Image-2

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 07/04/2026

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

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 07/04/2026

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.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 04/04/2026

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

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 04/04/2026

I'm sad for the UConn women, but South Carolina completely outplayed them. Oh well

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Sharat (Shar) Chander - 🟦🌊 @sharatchander.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 16/03/2026

Ball four. Not even close. DR got robbed #wbc

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 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 open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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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

What do you call a fed up gazelle? A disenchantelope. (rimshot)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 04/03/2026

Playing so much Spider Solitaire while waiting for Claude Code to respond I almost tried to explain to my wife that the game is all about hysteresis effects and cyclomatic complexity. Fortunately I caught myself in time and decided to stay married

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 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 open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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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

I made a paper airplane, but it wouldn't fly. It's just stationary. (rimshot)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 01/03/2026

Go outside, they said. Touch grass, they said.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 28/02/2026

I built a Claude Code Skill that helps you craft optimized prompts for Google's Nano Banana image generators. It asks you targeted questions, then generates a natural-language prompt following Google's official guidance. See the comment below the gist to install: gist.github.com/kousen/f7c66...

A generated photorealistic image of a fluffy cat with glasses reading Help Your Boss Help You in a library

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