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: Newsletter stats and NotebookLM, Cursor for Java, Claude Agent Skills, A chess tragedy, and the usual social media posts
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter, for the week of October 19 - 26, 2025. This week I taught week 2 of my Spring in 3 Weeks class on the O’Reilly Learning Platform and my regular schedule at Trin...
Tales from the jar side: The Developer Ecosystem 2025, Claude Code skills and plugins, Greatest Sho On Earth,
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter, for the week of October 12 - 19, 2025. This week I taught week 1 of my Spring in 3 Weeks class and my Managing Your Manager class on the O’Reilly Learning Platf...
Tales from the jar side: Video generation with Sora 2, Making LLM's feel bad, Diane Keaton, and the usual social media stuff
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter, for the week of October 5 - 12, 2025. This week I taught an class on LangChain4j on the O’Reilly Learning Platform.
Tales from the jar side: The $$$ of AI CLI tools, Ethereal Voices, and the usual Social Media silliness
Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter, for the week of September 28 - October 5, 2025. This week I taught an class on Agentic Coding with Codex CLI on the O’Reilly Learning Platform.
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