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

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/kenkouse...

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...