Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness Old MacDonald subscribed to FarmGPT. AI, AI, Oh. (rimshot)

Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness
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Still time for the crew to get into their ape suits

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.

Tales from the jar side: Another cute animal, MockHub and OAuth, Gemma 4, Lyria 3, and the usual Social Media posts How many junk drawers is too many? Asking for a friend. (rimshot)

This week's Tales from the jar side. Enjoy :)
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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

Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated.

I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.

What? That's insane! You're the best Java advocate they ever had

Tales from the jar side: Otter reading Kotlin, MockHub and Agentic Commerce, Developing with AI, and the usual Social Media posts Forgot to say last week: Chuck Norris played Rock-Paper-Scissors in front of a mirror and won. (rimshot)

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 I'm sorry to hear your uncle was run over by a boat in Venice. My gondolences. (rimshot)

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...

Terrible ending to a great game

Ball four. Not even close. DR got robbed #wbc

Ball four. No doubt at all

Tales from the jar side: Puppies and Mockito, Anthropic settlement, 1 MILLION tokens, Junie Air and CLI, FB and Moltbook: a Match made in Hades, and social media stuff What do you call a fed up gazelle? A disenchantelope. (rimshot)

Tales from the jar side: Puppies and Mockito, Anthropic settlement, 1 MILLION tokens, Junie Air and CLI, FB and Moltbook: a Match made in Hades, and social media stuff open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Tales from the jar side: DevNexus adventures, Delta chaos, Fun with OpenClaw, and the usual smattering of social media silliness Don't call it boxed wine. The classy term is Cardboardeaux. (rimshot)

Tales from the jar side: DevNexus adventures, Delta chaos, Fun with OpenClaw, and the usual smattering of social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Holy monotonicity, Batman!

Playing so much Spider Solitaire while waiting for Claude Code to respond I almost tried to explain to my wife that the game is all about hysteresis effects and cyclomatic complexity.

Fortunately I caught myself in time and decided to stay married

But I see "snow", which means something better different

Tales from the jar side: A Nano Banana Skill, UI Testing made simple, Anthropic vs Pentagon, Anthropic vs China, DevNexus, and the usual Social Media silliness I made a paper airplane, but it wouldn't fly. It's just stationary. (rimshot)

Tales from the jar side: A Nano Banana Skill, UI Testing made simple, Anthropic vs Pentagon, Anthropic vs China, DevNexus, and the usual Social Media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Snowfall outside my window

Go outside, they said. Touch grass, they said.

A generated photorealistic image of a fluffy cat with glasses reading Help Your Boss Help You in a library

I built a Claude Code Skill that helps you craft optimized prompts for Google's Nano Banana image generators. It asks you targeted questions, then generates a natural-language prompt following Google's official guidance.

See the comment below the gist to install:
gist.github.com/kousen/f7c66...

Tales from the jar side: My Trek/Java video, Gemini 3.1 lags, More OpenClaw drama, DevNexus, and the usual social media stuff A genie granted me one wish, so I wished to be happy. Now I live with six dwarves and work in a mine. (rimshot)

Tales from the jar side: My Trek/Java video, Gemini 3.1 lags, More OpenClaw drama, DevNexus, and the usual social media stuff open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Partial screenshot, there is a lot more on the site!

Here is the new (and long!) #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links.

Thanks to
CommonGround_2048
@johanvos.bsky.social
@gluonhq.com
JabRef
@tom-doerr.bsky.social
@lidianycs.bsky.social
@logorrr.bsky.social
@hansolo.eu

1/2

What would be the fun in that 😂

I totally agree, btw. I'm just tired of all the approvals. Now I'm just waiting for the inevitable disaster

Thus the word yolo (which is what Gemini called it on their CLI)

Fine. I give up. Added to .zshrc:

alias ccyolo='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions'

What could go wrong?

Tales from the jar side: RAG video, My clawdbot's wins and losses, the SaaSpocalype, and the usual social media silliness My son asked if training to be a locksmith would be worth it. I told him it would open a lot of doors for him. (rimshot)

Tales from the jar side: RAG video, My clawdbot's wins and losses, the SaaSpocalype, and the usual social media silliness open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate, or you can add Massacre if you don't.

Whatever. You do you ❣️