My portrait, enhanced by GPT-Image-2. I'm thinking this should be my new profile picture

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

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...

Told a friend I would meet him for lunch, but only if the temperature exceeded the hour. We're meeting at noon. It's going to be close.

My presentation at the (free!) jChampions Conference is in about 45 minutes. If you're able to attend, be sure to say hi during the live stream :) Conference: jchampionsconf.com Live streams: www.youtube.com/@JCh... Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e... #Java #JChampions

From Reddit via an AI newsletter. It's a perfect encapsulation of the IT world at the moment.

My wife knows how to celebrate a birthday

New photo, showing my new glasses. Also present: my new hearing aids. You can't see them, which is presumably a good thing :) Whenever I post an image like this, all I can think is: "Oh, Bwunhilda, you're so wovely." "Yes, I know it. I can't help it."

My contribution to today's #TeslaTakedown : traded in my Model 3 for a lease on an electric BMW i4. Nice, isn't it? And no more Elon, ever

I'm thinking this would be a good day for another uprising.

Morning all you woodchuck chuckers! Be sure to bundle up cause it's cold outside

Here's mine: "Ken Kousen: The Code Whisperer with a Symphony of Tweets "A maestro of Java, humor, and the occasional existential crisis. "Part coding genius, part musical soul, all wrapped in a delightful package of dad jokes and tech wisdom." Um, yeah. At a loss for words here. For a change

Apparently, she's got friends

D'oh! A deer! A female deer... ... in my backyard. They rarely come this close 🙂

I had to add that to an AI image generator. Specifically, Flux 1.1 pro from Black Forest Labs, with the prompt "flying koalas in the sky surrounded by rainbows and unicorns"

FYI, I have a script that shows time zones in Antarctica. Both the code and the output are attached. The South Pole is currently on DST. That's because it's considered part of the Ross Dependency, which follows the DST rules for New Zealand

I'm really glad I did this two weeks ago