Ken Kousen

Seriously, there are Nigerian princes who look at James Talarico's texting operation and say, "Dude, you really need to back off."

Tales from the jar side: Claude Duet, JetBrains Air, a real Python, and the usual Social Media Posts kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Tales from the jar side: Community Over Code, A Groovy Podcast, Edinburgh castle, Gemini 4 called Argon, and the usual Social Media Stuff kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

We're back! Groovy Podcast, Oct 14, 2026 from Community Over Code www.podbean.com/eas/pb-5e6bq... (audio) and youtu.be/It_zS6IqvhY (video)

Tales from the jar side: Glasgow conference, Jev = $$?, Book is done, and the usual Social Media posts kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

@bphogan.com I'm sending your latest newsletter (How to Tell Your Story) to all my senior computer science students at Trinity college (Hartford). I assume that's okay with you 😊

Tales from the jar side: The bitter lesson, A chess tournament, Community over Code, New AI stuff, and the usual Social Media posts kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Tales from the jar side: New video about Claude Code with any model, Some stats about my job, and the usual Social Media gags kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

I am giving numerous @groovy.apache.org & AI talks at upcoming @apache.org events. I hope to see you there. Take your pick: armadillo/furled sails, or full sails/startled armadillo! Why not both! communityovercode.apache.org

Tales from the jar side: Star Trek week, OpenAI and the Millennium prize, AI Slop license, and the usual social media silliness kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Tales from the jar side: NVIDIA buys Hugging Face, Coding agent status lights, AI for academic success, Space Madness, and the usual Social Media posts kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Tales from the jar side: A Transporter Accident Scale, My Star Trek parody, Agentic commerce, and the usual social media nonsense kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

And here I thought a Level 5 Transporter Accident was when you beamed Kirk's pants three feet to the left. Maybe that's only Level 4

After thinking about it for a few days, my opinion about the puppet episode of SNW is that the writers probably shouldn't have shot an arrow into the eye of that cyclops. Just saying

Tales from the jar side: Cruise pics, Anthropic watermarks, Westbrook retires, and the usual Social media silliness kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Tales from the jar side: Color cover, Vacation pics, AI break out, and the usual Social media silliness, by kenkousen.substack.com/p/tales-from...

Tales from the jar side: Bonjour from France, Practical AI Literacy, Agentic Commerce, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Marco Polo sheep, Cheating on exams, the Bozometer, scrcpy FTW, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Java documentary, Kimi K3, Chinese AI models market share, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

It's a bit disturbing how much more productive I am while listening to the 8-hour Severance music (www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...) in the background, but I suppose those macrodata files aren't going to refine themselves

Tales from the jar side: Loop (shudder) Engineering, Robots are coming, Fable 5, Better Call Sol, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Bad scheduling, OpenRouter, Not Going There, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Hey, Fable 5 is back. I'm teaching a class this evening that starts about 3 hours from now. I wonder if I can blow my entire weekly allocation by then? I'm guessing probably yes

Tales from the jar side: Claude Code: Up and Running, GPT 5.6 available (but not for you), OpenRouter in Spring AI and Claude Code, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Just Fix It, Ponytail, Mole, ScrapeCreators, SentrySearch, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Anthropic tells a Fable and the Gov't stops it; The last30days and here.now Skills, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Website redesign, Graphify, Gemma4, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

50% off is a lot 🙂

Tales from the jar side: jqwik Prompt Injection attack, Opus 4.8, Pangram AI detection, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

@johnoreilly.dev Hi John. Did you get my DM on Twitter? If not, I have a question to ask. Could you send your email address to me at ken.kousen@kousenit.com?

Tales from the jar side: Decline of social media, Grok burns down the town, Skills + sub-agents, Subsidized AI, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Commencement, Claude Hooks and my Pixoo64, Anthropic confuses everybody, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Mythos, Anthropic makes a deal, Musk v Sam, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

To celebrate some recent @apache.org releases (MINA & Commons RNG) & the imminent pre-release of @groovy.apache.org 6, let's create a stock ticker hub combining MINA's high-performance, high-scalability networking & Groovy's new async features: groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-... #groovylang

Tales from the jar side: Web Clipper's Reader Mode, Senior Project Presentations, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

@bphogan.com Another great newsletter this week. Excellent job :⁠-⁠)

Tales from the jar side: GPT Image 2, Open Brain, Anthropic Blunders, Meta is Evil, and the usual Social Media Posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

My portrait, enhanced by GPT-Image-2. I'm thinking this should be my new profile picture

Tales from the jar side: Yet another cute animal, Anthropic's blizzard of releases, Gemini failure, Chess Mates, and the usual social posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

You know you've been spending too much time with AI tools when you think you ought to take a vacation to Anguilla just for the domain name

My Claude Code course on the O'Reilly Learning Platform is tomorrow. Since Feb, there have been 62 new versions (!!). Claude Code added: Web, Dispatch, Remote Control, Ultraplan, Auto-Memory, Channels, Auto Mode, effort levels, /batch, /loop, scheduled tasks, and many command changes. Wow.

This week's Tales from the jar side. Enjoy :) open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

I heard an interesting observation today. One profession ideally suited to working with AI is journalists, because they are accustomed to dealing with unreliable sources

I'm sad for the UConn women, but South Carolina completely outplayed them. Oh well

Tales from the jar side: Otter reading Kotlin, MockHub and Agentic Commerce, Developing with AI, and the usual Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: Another cute animal, Simon Willison on AI coding, my MockHub app, my Chuck Norris story, and social media stuff open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...