Ken Kousen

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 […]

Tales from the jar side: My Trek/Java video, Gemini 3.1 lags, More OpenClaw drama, DevNexus, and the usual social media stuff https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-my-trekjava?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: RAG video, My clawdbot's wins and losses, the SaaSpocalype, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-rag-video?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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 […]

Tales from the jar side: AI and Jevons paradox, AI violinists, the JVM Weekly magnum opus, and the usual social media silliness Aliens are going to be so confused when they show up to overthrow our leaders and we offer to help. (rimshot)

Tales from the jar side: AI and Jevons paradox, AI violinists, the JVM Weekly magnum opus, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-and-jevons?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

Tales from the jar side: False measures of success and happiness, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-false-measures?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Gemini CLI, Cursor AI, Trinity College events, and the usual silliness from social media https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-gemini-cli?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: That don't impress me much, FIFA Peace Prize memes, Trashed pandas, and other social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-that-dont?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Spring AI, Vlogging through history, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-ai-60b?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales fromt the jar side: Gemini 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Antigravity, Wispr Flow, Death by Lightning, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-fromt-the-jar-side-gemini-30?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Vibe coding, AI companionship, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-vibe-coding?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: P6Spy, Cursor for Java, Fun with timezones, Halloween gags, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-p6spy-cursor?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Newsletter stats and NotebookLM, Cursor for Java, Claude Agent Skills, A chess tragedy, and the usual social media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter-d0d?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: The Developer Ecosystem 2025, Claude Code skills and plugins, Greatest Sho On Earth, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-the-developer?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Video generation with Sora 2, Making LLM's feel bad, Diane Keaton, and the usual social media stuff https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-video-generation?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-the-of-ai?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tales from the jar side: Newsletter recommendations, AInception, Projection Bot, and the usual social media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-newsletter?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

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! https://bit.ly/4mjJVTE

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

Unlocking AI: How MCP Transforms Developer Workflows Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) transforms complex AI tool interactions into simple conversations for developers.

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/