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)

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

Shareable Notebook Actually Shared This Time

In which Google disables functionality because I gave them money

Oct 27 • 

Ken Kousen

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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)

Oct 27 • 

Ken Kousen

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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)

Oct 19 • 

Ken Kousen

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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)

Oct 12 • 

Ken Kousen

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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)

Oct 5 • 

Ken Kousen

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September 2025

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…

Sep 28 • 

Ken Kousen

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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…

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…

Sep 22 • 

Ken Kousen

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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…

Sep 15 • 

Ken Kousen

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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)

Sep 7 • 

Ken Kousen

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August 2025

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)

Aug 31 • 

Ken Kousen

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Tales from the jar side: Groovy 5, Claude Code issues, NFJS, and the usual silly social media posts

What do sea monsters eat for dinner? Fish and ships. (rimshot)

Aug 24 • 

Ken Kousen

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