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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 5d

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...

Tales from the jar side: P6Spy, Cursor for Java, Fun with timezones, Halloween gags, and the usual social media silliness

A man is suing Smart Water for not making him smart. I'd like to formally announce my lawsuit against Thin Mints. (rimshot)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 12d

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

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Shareable Notebook Actually Shared This Time

In which Google disables functionality because I gave them money

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 12d

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: Newsletter stats and NotebookLM, Cursor for Java, Claude Agent Skills, A chess tragedy, and the usual social media posts

The doctor said I need to eat more greens, so I'm switching to mint chocolate chip ice cream. (rimshot)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 19d

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...

Tales from the jar side: The Developer Ecosystem 2025, Claude Code skills and plugins, Greatest Sho On Earth,

A farmer who owned 67 sheep asked me to round them up. I said sure, 70! (rimshot)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 21d

I think we can all vouch for that

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 21d

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

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 26d

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...

Tales from the jar side: Video generation with Sora 2, Making LLM's feel bad, Diane Keaton, and the usual social media stuff

Did you hear about the sail boat that kept suspiciously winning races? Turns out it was rigged. (rimshot)

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · Oct 7

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

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Oct 5

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

Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness

My body is a temple. Ancient, crumbling, cursed, and probably haunted. (rimshot)

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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · Sep 30

#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

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JUnit Release Notes

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · Sep 29

40-40 is a scorigami. congrats everybody

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 28

Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness
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Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness

This morning, I was walking down the street and I was hit by a violin, then a clarinet and then a french horn. I think it was an orchestrated attack. (rimshot)

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Erik C. Thauvin @erik.thauvin.net · Sep 22

Java 25: The Nice, the Meh, and…

#java #jdk

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 22

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
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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

I went skydiving for the first time. This guy strapped himself to me, we jumped out of the plane and as we plummeted, he said: "So, how long have you been an Instructor?" (rimshot)

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · Sep 18

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

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Moritz Halbritter @0.5ritter.de · Sep 17

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

Spring Initializr

Initializr generates spring boot project with just what you need to start quickly!

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · Sep 16

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

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 15

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: Junie Joy, Nano Banana, LM Studio, and the usual social media posts

ABBA is the only palindromic act to have a palindromic hit (SOS), in a palindromic genre (POP), on a palindromic album (ABBA) (rimshot, which sadly is not a palindrome)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 7

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness
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Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, Agents and MCP servers, My new semester, and the usual social media silliness

I've been searching for a carpentry pun that woodwork. Nailed it! Sadly, nobody saw it. (rimshots galore)

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 3

My pleasure. I’m very happy to be a subscriber :)

Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 3

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

Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · Sep 3

Young quarterbacks essentially never get “a year or two on the bench to learn,” and never have. Saying a young quarterback could benefit from such treatment is like saying he would benefit from a visit by his fairy godmother.

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Secret Wisdom of the NFL

May the wise listen and add their learning. And may the discerning gain guidance.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Sep 2

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

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 31

Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness
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Tales from the jar side: AI Codecon, CLI Agents, Yard Goats, and the usual social media silliness

A murder of crows? You mean caws of death? (rimshot)

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Hubert Klein Ikkink @mrhaki.com · Aug 30

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

Groovy Goodness: Use Range With subList Method

A blog about Groovy, Java, Clojure, Asciidoctor, Gradle and other cool developer subjects.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · Aug 30

Social media is really dying for the latest news.

Oof, I said that wrong.

OR DID I?

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