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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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Shareable Notebook Actually Shared This Time
In which Google disables functionality because I gave them money
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Tales from the jar side: Newsletter stats and NotebookLM, Cursor for Java, Claude Agent Skills, A chess tragedy, and the usual social media…
The doctor said I need to eat more greens, so I'm switching to mint chocolate chip ice cream. (rimshot)
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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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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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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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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…
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