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Writing 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: New video about Claude Code with any model, Some stats about my job, and the usual Social Media gags (opens the original)
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Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of Sep 20-27, 2026. This week I taught my Agentic Coding with Claude Code course on the O’Reilly Learning Platform, as well as my regular courses at Trinity College (Hartford, CT).If you are new here, welcome! (If you’re not new here, welcome back!) Frequent readers of Tales from the jar side (Tftjs) are affectionately known as jarheads (at least until any real jarheads complain), and are far more intelli
Tales from the jar side: My Claude Code book, Stranger New Worlds, Jev and other AI stuff, and the usual Social Media silliness (opens the original)
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Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of Sep 13-20, 2026. This week I taught my Agentic Commerce course on the O’Reilly Learning Platform, as well as my regular courses at Trinity College (Hartford, CT).If you are new here, welcome! (If you’re not new here, welcome back!) Frequent readers of Tales from the jar side (Tftjs) are affectionately known as jarheads (at least until any real jarheads complain), and are far more intelligent, sophistic
Tales from the jar side: Star Trek week, OpenAI and the Millennium prize, AI Slop license, and the usual social media silliness (opens the original)
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Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of Sep 6-13, 2026. This week I taught my Managing Your Manager course on the O’Reilly Learning Platform, and my Trinity College semester started as well.If you are new here, welcome! (If you’re not new here, welcome back!) Frequent readers of Tales from the jar side (Tftjs) are affectionately known as jarheads (at least until any real jarheads complain), and are far more intelligent, sophisticated, and go
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 (opens the original)
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Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of Aug 30 - Sep 6, 2026. This week I taught my Spring AI course and my course on Agentic Coding with Antigravity CLI, both on the O’Reilly Learning Platform.If you are new here, welcome! Frequent readers of Tales from the jar side (Tftjs) are affectionately known as jarheads (at least until any real jarheads complain), and are far more intelligent, sophisticated, and gosh darn it, just plain better lookin
Tales from the jar side: Imagination Library and Dolly, Run Claude Code with any model, Vote for Marlborough, and the usual social media posts (opens the original)
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Welcome, fellow jarheads, to Tales from the jar side, the Kousen IT newsletter for the week of Aug 23-30, 2026. This week I taught part two of my Spring in Two Weeks course, my course on Agentic Coding with Codex, and my course on Agentic Coding with Claude Code, all on the O’Reilly Learning Platform.If you are new here, welcome! Frequent readers of Tales from the jar side (Tftjs) are affectionate
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