Tales from the jar side
Ken KousenWriting projects, speaking engagements, training classes, and personal anecdotes from Java, Groovy, and Kotlin developer Ken Kousen
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Tales from the jar side: Loop (shudder) Engineering, Robots are coming, Fable 5, Better Call Sol, and the usual Social Media silliness
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of July 5-12, 2026. This week I didn’t teach any training classes, but somehow I managed to stay busy anyway.
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Tales from the jar side: Bad scheduling, OpenRouter, Not Going There, and the usual Social Media posts
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of June 28 - July 5, 2026. This week I taught my Agentic Coding with Codex CLI course and my Claude Code course, both on the O’Reilly Learning Platf...
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
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of June 21-28, 2026. This week I taught my Agentic Coding with Junie course on the O’Reilly Learning Platform.
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Tales from the jar side: Just Fix It, Ponytail, Mole, ScrapeCreators, SentrySearch, and the usual silly Social Media posts
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of June 14-21, 2026. I didn’t have any training classes this week.
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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
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of June 7-14, 2026. This week I taught my Agentic Coding with Antigravity course on the O’Reilly Learning Platform.
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