Ken Kousen

My books

• Mockito Made Clear
• Help Your Boss Help You, also on Amazon
• Kotlin Cookbook
• Modern Java Recipes
• Gradle Recipes for Android
• Making Java Groovy

FYI, my last name is pronounced as though it was spelled "cousin," like the relative. Go figure.

My one-person company is Kousen IT, Inc.. I say "Kousen Eye-Tee", but my wife calls it "Kousen IT" like it was from the Addams Family

Recent newsletters

• Tales from the jar side: Creating audio from text with Spring, New video tools, Help me earn a tenth of cent from my custom GPT, and the usual silly tweets, toots, and skeets
• Tales from the jar side: Running LLMs locally, Spring Text-to-Speech and Spring AI, the AI Word Of The Year, and the usual silly tweets and toots
• Tales from the jar side: Java Audio using OpenAI, 1K vs 1 thousand, Pop-Tarts Bowl memes, and the usual silly tweets, toots, and skeets
• Tales from the jar side: Off-by-one errors and 5 years of Tftjs, 1 year and 1000 subs on YT, Substack issues, and a Holiday edition of tweets, toots, and skeets
• Tales from the jar side: The Gemini rigged demo, the Gemini Java API (sort of), Java jokes, The kids are all right, and the usual assortment of tweets, toots, and skeets

Recent blog posts

• AI vs Cthulhu: How to Bypass Guardrails
• Perplexity AI API: Real-Time Search and AI Summation
• Creating an AI-Generated Opera with LangChain4j
• Conversations with LangChain4j
• A Really Easy Way to Add AI to Java

Some info:

• You can always find out what I'm doing from my free newsletter, Tales from the jar side
• I also manage the Tales from the jar side YouTube channel
• My blog contains posts from my work using Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and more