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 https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-decline-of?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Ken Kousen
Software developer, technical trainer, and author of Mockito Made Clear, Modern Java Recipes, Help Your Boss Help You, Gradle Recipes for Android, Kotlin Cookbook, and Making Java Groovy. #searchable
Tales from the jar side: Web Clipper's Reader Mode, Senior Project Presentations, and the usual Social Media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-web-clippers?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Otter reading Kotlin, MockHub and Agentic Commerce, Developing with AI, and the usual Social Media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-otter-reading?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales fromt the jar side: Gemini 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Antigravity, Wispr Flow, Death by Lightning, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-fromt-the-jar-side-gemini-30?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: False measures of success and happiness, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-false-measures?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Gemini CLI, Cursor AI, Trinity College events, and the usual silliness from social media https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-gemini-cli?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Commencement, Claude Hooks and my Pixoo64, Anthropic confuses everybody, and the usual Social Media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-commencement?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Mythos, Anthropic makes a deal, Musk v Sam, and the usual Social Media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-mythos-anthropic?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: GPT Image 2, Open Brain, Anthropic Blunders, Meta is Evil, and the usual Social Media Posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-gpt-image?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Making Java Groovy, Footnote humor, the Iceberg Index, and the usual Social Media silliness
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-making-java-a89?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
This week's Tales from the jar side. Enjoy :)
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-another-cute-eda?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Another cute animal, Simon Willison on AI coding, my MockHub app, my Chuck Norris story, and social media stuff https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-another-cute?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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 https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-puppies-and?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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 https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-a-nano-banana?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: My Trek/Java video, Gemini 3.1 lags, More OpenClaw drama, DevNexus, and the usual social media stuff https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-my-trekjava?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: RAG video, My clawdbot's wins and losses, the SaaSpocalype, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-rag-video?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Spring Boot 4, Agentic Java coding, Launch Library API, Spring AI Skills, Stand with Minnesota, and the usual social media nonsense https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-boot-fff?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: AI and Jevons paradox, AI violinists, the JVM Weekly magnum opus, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-ai-and-jevons?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Shock wave simulator, New hat + AI, Another lesson from It's A Wonderful Life, and more social media posts, by @kenkousen@foojay.social https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-shock-wave?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: That don't impress me much, FIFA Peace Prize memes, Trashed pandas, and other social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-that-dont?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: Spring AI, Vlogging through history, and the usual social media silliness https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-spring-ai-60b?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Tales from the jar side: jqwik Prompt Injection attack, Opus 4.8, Pangram AI detection, and the usual Social Media posts https://open.substack.com/pub/kenkousen/p/tales-from-the-jar-side-jqwik-prompt?r=2dwq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true