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/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Website redesign, Graphify, Gemma4, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

50% off is a lot 🙂

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/kenkouse...

@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 [email protected]?

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/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Commencement, Claude Hooks and my Pixoo64, Anthropic confuses everybody, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Mythos, Anthropic makes a deal, Musk v Sam, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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

Tales from the jar side: Web Clipper's Reader Mode, Senior Project Presentations, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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

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/kenkouse...

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

Tales from the jar side: Yet another cute animal, Anthropic's blizzard of releases, Gemini failure, Chess Mates, and the usual social posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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

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.

This week's Tales from the jar side. Enjoy :) open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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

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

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.

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/kenkouse...

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/kenkouse...

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

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...

Tales from the jar side: DevNexus adventures, Delta chaos, Fun with OpenClaw, and the usual smattering of social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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

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...

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

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...

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/kenkouse...

Here is the new (and long!) #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to CommonGround_2048 @johanvos.bsky.social @gluonhq.com JabRef @tom-doerr.bsky.social @lidianycs.bsky.social @logorrr.bsky.social @hansolo.eu 1/2

Fine. I give up. Added to .zshrc: alias ccyolo='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions' What could go wrong?

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/kenkouse...

Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate, or you can add Massacre if you don't. Whatever. You do you ❣️

My clawdbot (or whatever it's called now) reminded me that Valentine's Day is tomorrow, so for the first time in years I'm ready ahead of time. That almost, but not quite, paid for the entire exercise

Tales from the jar side: Moltbook implodes, OpenClaw is okay, a RAG demo, My dad's favorite player passes away, my SB pick, and the usual social media silliness, open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Temperatures at 7 am this morning, according to Google McMurdo Station, Antarctica: 21 F Nuuk, Greenland: 25 F Marlborough, CT: -3 F All I can say is, brrr 🥶

Tales from the jar side: Clawdbot née Moltbot née OpenClaw, Moltbook and emergent behavior, The Boss still rules, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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.

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

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Tales from the jar side: Snow, NFL, Dealing with current chaos, Agentic Java, Null Pointers, and the usual social media stuff open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

The Twin Cities aren’t playing when they say Abolish ICE. Here’s another graphic for our Minnesota friends.

THE POPE'S STILL GOT IT

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 open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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

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/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Called it, jChampions conference, Agents vs MCP, Ralph Wiggum plugin, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Some days you get the AI, and some days the AI gets you