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Apple is once again drawing scrutiny over its App Store gatekeeping. John Gruber at Daring Fireball has highlighted the rejection of an app called Dark Hours, the latest in what critics say is a pattern of opaque, inconsistent decisions that leave developers with little recourse and users with fewer choices.
Shifting to the road, a piece circulating today argues that Waymo should be watching Uber far more carefully than it might be. The argument is straightforward — Uber already owns the customer relationship, the brand trust, and the global infrastructure. Autonomous technology is powerful, but distribution may ultimately matter more.
And in the world of software engineering, the htmx team has published a thoughtful essay on what they call a complexity budget — the idea that every project has a finite tolerance for complexity, and spending it carelessly on tooling leaves nothing left for the actual problem you set out to solve. It is a quiet but sharp critique of how modern development culture defaults to adding rather than subtracting.
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