// the labs
Workshop in progress.
mycuppa.io is the Cuppa Tech sandbox — learning notes, R&D experiments, and a build-time scrape on AI & mobile. Less polished than cuppatech.com; that's the point.
// latest
Fresh from the feed. all news →
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Markdown SVG upgrades
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May , but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved…
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to…
// notes
Recent learning notes. all articles →
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Modern iOS App Architecture - Part 1: Foundation & Layers
Deep dive into modern iOS app architecture, covering layered architecture, MVVM, unidirectional data flow, and dependency injection. Essential guide for building scalable iOS applications with SwiftUI.
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Modern iOS App Architecture - Part 2: State Management & Navigation
Learn advanced state management patterns, navigation coordination, and data flow in modern iOS applications with SwiftUI and Combine.
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Modern iOS App Architecture - Part 3: Testing & Best Practices
Master testing strategies, dependency injection patterns, and production-ready best practices for modern iOS applications.
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Building an AI Chatbot with MCP-Inspired Skills Architecture
Learn how to build a production-ready AI chatbot using MCP-inspired Skills, markup-based knowledge, and cost-optimized architecture. Complete guide with code examples for modern applications.
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Mobile AI Chatbot Integration: Android Native Implementation
Complete guide to integrating AI chatbot into Android (Jetpack Compose) apps with streaming responses, native UI, and authentication.
// what's here
Three surfaces.
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/learning
Articles ported from the V1 site — iOS / Android architecture, Next.js + TypeScript patterns, AI / LLM integration, Claude Code & MCP guides. Grouped by topic, newest first.
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/news
A build-time RSS aggregator across the feeds we follow on AI, mobile, and web. Static — regenerated on every deploy. No DB, no auth, no backend.
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/about
What this site is, what it isn't, how to get in touch. Polished work graduates to cuppatech.com; everything else lives here.