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Ken Kousen

@kousenit.com

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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

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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 · 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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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 31/01/2026

Told a friend I would meet him for lunch, but only if the temperature exceeded the hour. We're meeting at noon. It's going to be close.

Google weather showing it's currently 1 deg F and should make it to 12 by noon

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 27/01/2026

My presentation at the (free!) jChampions Conference is in about 45 minutes. If you're able to attend, be sure to say hi during the live stream :) Conference: jchampionsconf.com Live streams: www.youtube.com/@JCh... Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e... #Java #JChampions

Presentation at jChampions Conference, called "When One Agent Isn't Enough: Experiments with Multi-Agent AI", along with links

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 12/01/2026

From Reddit via an AI newsletter. It's a perfect encapsulation of the IT world at the moment.

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 13/08/2025

My wife knows how to celebrate a birthday

The world's biggest 24 layer chocolate cake

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 25/04/2025

New photo, showing my new glasses. Also present: my new hearing aids. You can't see them, which is presumably a good thing :) Whenever I post an image like this, all I can think is: "Oh, Bwunhilda, you're so wovely." "Yes, I know it. I can't help it."

My new photo, wearing a cap, showing my new glasses. My hearing aids are there, too, but quite well hidden

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 29/03/2025

My contribution to today's #TeslaTakedown : traded in my Model 3 for a lease on an electric BMW i4. Nice, isn't it? And no more Elon, ever

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 26/02/2025

I'm thinking this would be a good day for another uprising.

The main Lumen building surrounded by the words "Thank Kier for the Macrodat Uprising"

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 03/02/2025

Morning all you woodchuck chuckers! Be sure to bundle up cause it's cold outside

TV screen showing the first image from the movie Groundhog Day

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 01/12/2024

Here's mine: "Ken Kousen: The Code Whisperer with a Symphony of Tweets "A maestro of Java, humor, and the occasional existential crisis. "Part coding genius, part musical soul, all wrapped in a delightful package of dad jokes and tech wisdom." Um, yeah. At a loss for words here. For a change

Results from blueskyroast.com for Ken Kousen. Just an illustration of what's already in the text of the skeet

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 19/11/2024

Apparently, she's got friends

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 19/11/2024

D'oh! A deer! A female deer... ... in my backyard. They rarely come this close 🙂

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 17/11/2024

I had to add that to an AI image generator. Specifically, Flux 1.1 pro from Black Forest Labs, with the prompt "flying koalas in the sky surrounded by rainbows and unicorns"

Flying koalas in the sky, surrounded by rainbows and unicorns

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 14/11/2024

FYI, I have a script that shows time zones in Antarctica. Both the code and the output are attached. The South Pole is currently on DST. That's because it's considered part of the Ross Dependency, which follows the DST rules for New Zealand

A table showing time zones in Antarctica by UTC offset, Zone Id, and whether or not it is currently on Daylight Savings Time (the South Pole currently is on DST)

Java code inside a main method that prints the time zones in Antarctica, sorted by GMT offset

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 04/11/2024

I'm really glad I did this two weeks ago

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