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 […]

Tales from the jar side: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts, by https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-joy?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon-d59?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-codecon?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Tales from the jar side: Groovy 5, Claude Code issues, NFJS, and the usual silly social media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-groovy-5?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Claude Code status line, Spring redirects (or not), OCP employees, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-claude-code-181?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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 […]

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 https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-more-theme?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: My visit to the Star Trek museum, UberConf coming, New Tftjs theme song, An AI opera, and the usual social media nonsense https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-my-visit?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Junie live stream, MCP video and blog post, MCPs with Claude Code, and the usual silly skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-live?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I finally understand what MCP is for:a blog post based on my recent YouTube video, with updates and more info https://kousenit.org/2025/06/22/i-finally-understand-what-mcp-is-for/

Tales from the jar side: From Google to Slidev, the Psychologically Disturbed Song Cycle, more Junie vs Claude Code, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-from-google?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Junie vs Claude Code, I finally get what MCP is for, I contribute to LangChain4j, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-junie-vs?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: "Star Trek: The MCP Server", two new blog posts, a new video, a Junie live stream, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-star-trek?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Sure, I’ll sign your ebook Between 2013 and 2023, I wrote a series of books for Manning, O'Reilly, and the Pragmatic Bookshelf: My six books Every once in a while, someone would come up to me at a conference with a copy of one and ask me to sign it. I'd make some gag about that ruining the […]

Three ways to wait for a streaming response from Spring AI to return before exiting a JUnit test https://kousenit.org/2025/05/27/waiting-for-spring-ai-streaming-responses-in-junit-tests/

Tales from the jar side: Pachelbel's one-hit wonder, Testing AI's with AI's, Java turns 30, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-pachelbels?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Spring AI and Redis, A vibe coded lyrics trainer, Agent Underlord, and the usual toots and skeets, by @kenkousen https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-ai-4b4?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Spring AI training, Claude App and Claude Code, the Hagler-Leonard fight, and the usual silly skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-ai-e14?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: End of semester, Splitting PDFs, Spring AI versions, Kotlin notebooks, some personal stuff, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-end-of-semester?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Signing an ebook, AI agents, GPT-4.1 token limits, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-signing-an?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Persistent chat memory, n8n and other a10ns, assorted medical stuff, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-persistent?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Going meta, the Arc of AI conference, college basketball, Really really final, April Fool's jokes, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-metadata?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Arc of AI conference, MCP fears, Tesla takedown day, DOGE to replace tons of COBOL with Java, and the usual social media posts, by @kenkousen […]

Tales from the jar side: 20 years of Kousen IT, AI knows your books, Heaven Could Wait, and the usual social media posts, by @kenkousen https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-20-years?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Java spliterators, Stream support, Biebl's Ave Maria, Heaven Can Wait, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-java-spliterators?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: the Devnexus conference, My interview with Trisha Gee, I finally meet Lize Raes, 2 (?) Pixoo 64s, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-devnexus-088?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Claude Code, the FIM API from DeepSeek, a new video, open book / open AI exams, and the usual silly toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-claude-code?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: "Hidden" JSON fields from AI services, Giazotto vs Albinoni vs Bach/Gounod, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-hidden-json?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Boarded for ATL for this tonight https://www.meetup.com/atlantajug/events/306097338/

Tales from the jar side: I get a prediction right, Super Bowl halftime vs Hamilton, and the usual silly toots and skeets, by @kenkousen https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-i-get-a-prediction?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: AI vs Kendrick vs Drake at the Super Bowl, Google's Gemini grovels at my feet, My SB 59 prediction, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-vs-rap?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

RAG vs prompt stuffing with four different AI models in LangChain4j, but really, will Kendrick Lamar perform Not Like Us during the Super Bowl halftime show? https://youtu.be/QRYFiV8hHIM?si=mCp4w-Hbdt4_3rhp

Tales from the jar side: The DeepSeek API, the Janus vision model and image generator, My second missed day, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-the-deepseek?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: DeepSeek R1, my new semester at Trinity College begins, the jChampions Conference, and the usual silly toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-deepseek?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: My channel makes the YouTube Partner Program, the Tuck Bridge program ends, the jChampions Conf this week, College enrollment crisis, and the usual toots and skeets […]

Tales from the jar side: Teaching deep learning and neural nets, my wife does good while I sit through (some) evil, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-teaching-779?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Java Champions conference, Tuck bridge program, Adrian Dittmann, and the usual silly toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-java-champions?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Silly lines of Java, newsletter and YouTube channel anniversaries, Google being evil, and the usual silly toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-silliest?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: My silliest line of Java ever, Google releases a thinking model, OpenAI makes more promises, Gukesh is the new champ, and the usual silly toots and skeets […]

Tales from the jar side: Everybody aces the final, Pearl Fishers and Norma duets, My favorite musician, and the usual silly toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-everybody?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Gemini + OpenAI, AI integration presentations, International affairs, and the usual toots and skeets, by @kenkousen https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-gemini-openai-e84?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Kendrick vs Drake yet again, vacuous Paul McCartney song lyrics, Prompt stuffing vs RAG, Laptop setup issues, Learning Python, Thanksgiving jokes, and the usual toots and skeets […]

Tales from the jar side: Gemini + OpenAI, The o1 models, Hail Flutie!, Airplane! jokes, and the usual toots and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-gemini-openai?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Multilingual audio in Java, casting into the void, stages of grief, light bulb jokes, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-multilingual?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Perplexity citations, an image carousel, the migration to Bluesky, some election thoughts, and the usual tweets, toots, and skeets […]

Tales from the jar side: AI vs Cthulhu video, the Grok AI API, Image generation with Recraft, She's got this, and the usual tweets, toots, and skeets https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-vs-cthulhu?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

AI vs Cthulhu: How to Bypass Guardrails As someone who's spent their entire career working with computers and the last couple of years diving deep into AI, I'm quite familiar with the concept of Evil. However, I never intended to summon an Elder God to destroy the world. Yet, here we are […]

Tales from the jar side: I voted, YouTube milestones, new Perplexity AI's API and Flux 1.1 videos, Anthropic AI 's computer use, and the usual tweets and toots […]