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: Star Trek week, OpenAI and the Millennium prize, AI Slop license, and the usual social media silliness
• 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
• Tales from the jar side: Imagination Library and Dolly, Run Claude Code with any model, Vote for Marlborough, and the usual social media posts
• Tales from the jar side: A Transporter Accident Scale, My Star Trek parody, Agentic commerce, and the usual social media nonsense
• Tales from the jar side: Cruise pics, Anthropic watermarks, Westbrook retires, and the usual Social media silliness

Recent blog posts

• The Transporter Accident Severity Scale
• I Finally Understand What MCP Is For
• Sure, I’ll sign your ebook
• Waiting for Spring AI Streaming Responses in JUnit Tests
• AI vs Cthulhu: How to Bypass Guardrails

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