// 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 →

  1. [simon willison]

    EmbeddingGemma 2

    My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in…

  2. [simon willison]

    Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

    Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion…

  3. [simon willison]

    Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

    TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces I saw Parseable in a Show HN today - it's a new observability platform with both an open source…

  4. [simon willison]

    Mistral Large 4

    My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News. wren6991 : The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights…

  5. [vercel]

    AI Gateway adds confidence-based decision fallbacks

    can now escalate a decision request to a fallback model when the primary model's answer trips a confidence condition you set.AI Gateway Conditions can be…

// notes

Recent learning notes. all articles →

  1. // Mobile · iOS

    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.

  2. // Mobile · iOS

    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.

  3. // Mobile · iOS

    Modern iOS App Architecture - Part 3: Testing & Best Practices

    Master testing strategies, dependency injection patterns, and production-ready best practices for modern iOS applications.

  4. // AI · MCP

    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.

  5. // Mobile · Android

    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.