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Tales from the jar side: From Google to Slidev, the Psychologically Disturbed Song Cycle, more Junie vs Claude Code, and the usual toots and…
What's the best way to save your Dad Jokes? In a Dad-abase (rimshot)
Jun 15
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Ken Kousen
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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
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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
You can't just sweep the elephant in the room under the rug. (rimshot)
Jun 8
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Ken Kousen
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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
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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
How many engagement baiters does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer in the comments. (rimshot)
Jun 1
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Ken Kousen
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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
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May 2025
Tales from the jar side: Pachelbel's one-hit wonder, Testing AI's, Java turns 30, and the usual toots and skeets
How do you row a canoe full of puppies? With a doggy paddle, of course. (rimshot)
May 25
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Pachelbel's one-hit wonder, Testing AI's, Java turns 30, and the usual toots and skeets
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Tales from the jar side: Spring AI and Redis, A vibe coded lyrics trainer, Agent Underlord, and the usual toots and skeets
Found an old jukebox in prison, but it was filled with criminal records. (rimshot)
May 19
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Spring AI and Redis, A vibe coded lyrics trainer, Agent Underlord, and the usual toots and skeets
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Tales from the jar side: Spring AI training, Claude App and Claude Code, the Hagler-Leonard fight, and the usual silly skeets
What happens when a castle performs poorly at work? It gets demoated (rimshot)
May 12
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Spring AI training, Claude App and Claude Code, the Hagler-Leonard fight, and the usual silly skeets
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Tales from the jar side: End of semester, Splitting PDFs, Spring AI versions, Kotlin notebooks, some personal stuff, and the usual toots and…
Sugar is the only word in the English language where "su" sounds like "sh". I'm pretty sure that's correct. (rimshot)
May 4
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: End of semester, Splitting PDFs, Spring AI versions, Kotlin notebooks, some personal stuff, and the usual toots and skeets
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April 2025
Tales from the jar side: Claude Code, OpenAI codex CLI, and Junie, My slightly newer look, and the usual toots and skeets
I never thought I'd be the kind of person who got up early to exercise. Turns out I was right. (rimshot)
Apr 27
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Claude Code, OpenAI codex CLI, and Junie, My slightly newer look, and the usual toots and skeets
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Tales from the jar side: Signing an ebook, AI agents, GPT-4.1 token limits, and the usual toots and skeets
You know what you call a series of bunnies hopping backwards? A receding hareline (rimshot)
Apr 20
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Signing an ebook, AI agents, GPT-4.1 token limits, and the usual toots and skeets
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Tales from the jar side: Persistent chat memory, n8n and similar a11s, Assorted medical stuff, and the usual toots and skeets
99.9% of people are dumb. Fortunately, I'm part of the remaining 1%.
Apr 13
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Persistent chat memory, n8n and similar a11s, Assorted medical stuff, and the usual toots and skeets
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Tales from the jar side: Metadata, Arc of AI, College basketball, Really final, April Fools, and the usual toots and skeets
I replaced my rooster with a duck, and how I wake up at the quack of dawn. (rimshot)
Apr 6
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Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Metadata, Arc of AI, College basketball, Really final, April Fools, and the usual toots and skeets
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March 2025
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…
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter, for the week of March 23 - 30, 2025.
Mar 30
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Ken Kousen
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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
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