The online and free JChampions Conference is coming up on Jan 22, 23, 26, and 27. There will be 28 sessions for ALL Java developers presented by Java Champions. jchampionsconf.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@JChampionsC... Tickets from Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/jchampions...

The online and free JChampions Conference is coming up on Jan 22, 23, 26, and 27. There will be 28 sessions for ALL Java developers presented by Java Champions. jchampionsconf.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@JChampionsC... Tickets from Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/jchampions...

Another hilarious and informative summary 🏉 :⁠-⁠)

If you won't go until you get some figgy pudding, you're going to have a long, cold wait for DoorDash and I doubt you're going to be happy with the result

Tales from the jar side: False measures of success and happiness, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Gemini CLI, Cursor AI, Trinity College events, and the usual silliness from social media open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Spring AI, Vlogging through history, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Vibe coding, AI companionship, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Cursor for Android, Chess tournament, No man is an island, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: P6Spy, Cursor for Java, Fun with timezones, Halloween gags, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Here's the actual sharable link to my NotebookLM notebook, necessary because I give Google money and therefore they DISABLE functionality. Gee, thanks, Google. open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

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/kenkouse...

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/kenkouse...

I can't believe Apple is really calling their latest chip M5. Am I the only person who remembers The Ultimate Computer episode of #st:tos? That would be like IBM releasing a computer named HAL in 2001. Missed opportunity, I guess

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/kenkouse...

Tuesday's Pragmatic Picks 40% off with code pragpicks Write Better with Vale Mockito Made Clear Cruising Along with Java Modern CSS with Tailwind, Second Edition links in 🧵 Brian P. Hogan @kousenit.com Venkat Subramaniam @noelrappin.com

Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released! ✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline 🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations 🛫 Integrated JFR support 🚟 Kotlin suspend function support 🛑 Support for cancelling test execution ⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher 🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

40-40 is a scorigami. congrats everybody

Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Java 25: The Nice, the Meh, and… #java #jdk horstmann.com/unblog/20...

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

48 hour FLASH! 45% off with code FLASHSALE @pragdave felt like stirring things up - he just put nearly every title on sale!

Java 25 support is now available on start.spring.io.

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd... Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk... Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/ #Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK #Java

Tales from the jar side: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts, by open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

This collection of hard-won wisdom is exactly why @miketanier.bsky.social Is my favorite NFL writer 🏈

Using three AI agent tools at once gives me a much greater appreciation of daycare providers

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

A post about one of the new Groovy 5 features: using a range as argument for the List.subList method. blog.mrhaki.com/2025/08/groo... #Groovy #Groovy5

Social media is really dying for the latest news. Oof, I said that wrong. OR DID I?

After going back and forth with @anthropic.com support for days, I accidentally stumbled on the way to get my Claude Code installation working again: > unset CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN If nothing else works, try that

Apache Groovy 5 has been released. Time to brush up my Groovy Goodness series. Let's start with some new ways to create a new map based on an iterable: blog.mrhaki.com/2025/08/groo... (This is actually my 1500th blog post on Messages from mrhaki blog) #Groovy #ApacheGroovy

It is clear that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was definitely not what I expected this week. Apparently one never knows with that show. (LLaP) #stsnw

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

Tales from the jar side: Groovy 5, Claude Code issues, NFJS, and the usual silly social media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

‪Version 5.0.0 of @groovy.apache.org is available for download with 600+ fixes and improvements since Groovy 4! Thanks to all involved! This new version is the best version yet to run Groovy on JDKs 11-25! groovy.apache.org/download.html groovy-lang.org/releasenotes... #groovylang @apache.org

We have a hummingbird feeder, and I gotta say, hummingbirds really don't get along. Calm down guys, there's plenty for everybody. (They're not listening to me) (I'd add pics but they move too fast)

You know that study that says people age in bursts, one of which is in their early 60s? I may not have fully thought through my decision to buy a 4K webcam

Tales from the jar side: Claude Code status line, Spring redirects (or not), OCP employees, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

The /statusline command in Claude Code is great. Now I can see which project I'm on, which model I'm using, and even the local weather below my console 😁

My wife knows how to celebrate a birthday

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

FWIW, in one of my my Spring AI apps I assigned "spring.ai.openai.chat.options.model" to "gpt-5-nano" in application.properties, and it worked fine with a simple query (so did gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini). Not really a high bar, but if that didn't work, nothing was going to.

(Old gag that came up again recently) Me: I believe that all web services should be stateless. You: Really? Why do you think that? Me: Why do I think what? (rimshot)

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

LangChain4j 1.2.0 is out! #ai #java #llm github.com/langchain4j/...