Axodys 10C Edition

🎮 Stone Story looks like a fascinating retro take on the modern RPG. It's animated entirely in ASCII symbols (and looks beautiful), but it also has a unique minimalist AI based interface where you equip the character and then turn it loose to do the actual fighting (although you can swap weapons during combat). Resource acquisition and crafting also factor heavily into the gameplay and the longterm goal is a highly replayable game that supports user generated content.

Restaurants in the 110-year-old Wonder Building saw their first full day of operation Monday when the building’s ground floor officially opened to the public.

The Spokesman Review has some nice opening day coverage (including pictures) of the newly remodeled space. Looks great, and I'm tempted to go try a lobster roll and clam chowder at High Tide Lobster Bar now.

A piece of Spokane's history has found new life as an old bread factory turned office building now sees even more change -- in the form of a new marketplace that's taken years to shape.

I run and drive by this part of Spokane quite regularly so I've been watching the Wonder Building remodel with interest. The new marketplace is going to be a great addition to the neighborhood.

🎙 Fantastic 16" MacBook Pro coverage on Upgrade 271 as Jason Snell has an exclusive interview about the new model with Apple’s MacBook Pro product manager, Shruti Haldea, and then he and Myke Hurley discuss his initial experiences with a review unit.

Looks like Apple's finally back on track with their laptop design after three years in the weeds. Once there's a 13" model with the new keyboard I'm going to ask work to replace my 5+ year-old MacBook Air.

⚽ Interesting Guardian interview with former Spurs defender Kieran Trippier. Sounds like he's adapting well to playing for Atlético Madrid in Spain's La Liga and found a level of happiness that was missing last season at Tottenham.

📺 The Final Frontier is a really moving New Yorker piece on Star Trek: Picard showrunner Michael Chabon's final moments with his dying father, who was an original series purist. This had a lot of resonance for me both as a Star Trek fan, and someone who lost my father to cancer almost 20 years ago.

First it was David Henemier Hansen's wife getting the shaft from Apple Card, now Woz reports the same issue for his spouse. Apple and Goldman Sachs have a serious issue on their hands and a lot of people and companies are going to be scrambling depending on how this all plays out.

Led by a relentless defense, WSU chewed up Seattle University for a decisive 85-54 nonconference men’s basketball victory Thursday at Beasley Coliseum.

🏀 I thought Kyle Smith was a great coaching hire based on the job he did at USF; what a great beginning to his WSU tenure!

🎮 This Apple Arcade in 100 seconds video is so much more compelling than what Apple showed in their keynote Tuesday. Watching it made me way more interested in the service than I was before.