Tales from the jar side

Tales from the jar side

Home
Notes
Archive
About
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)
 • 
Ken Kousen
2
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)
 • 
Ken Kousen
2
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)
 • 
Ken Kousen
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)
 • 
Ken Kousen
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…
 • 
Ken Kousen
1
Tales from the jar side: Scary Awesome AI, Sports announcers, Venkat comes to class, Conway's Game of Life, Thinking modes, and the usual…
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…
 • 
Ken Kousen
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…
 • 
Ken Kousen
Tales from the jar side
Tales from the jar side
Writing projects, speaking engagements, training classes, and personal anecdotes from Java, Groovy, and Kotlin developer Ken Kousen
Recommendations
View all 8
Swaine’s World
Swaine’s World
Michael Swaine
One Useful Thing
One Useful Thing
Ethan Mollick
Mike Tanier's Too Deep Zone
Mike Tanier's Too Deep Zone
Mike Tanier
JVM Weekly
JVM Weekly
Artur Skowronski
Trisha’s Substack
Trisha’s Substack
Trisha Gee
YouTube
Tales from the jar side YouTube channel
Blogs
My Medium articles

Tales from the jar side

AboutArchiveRecommendationsSitemap
© 2025 Ken Kousen
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture