Scott’s Thoughts

A quick primer on travel routers A travel router is like what you use at home or work, but made smaller to prioritize portability.

I attended a test ride event last week in Palo Alto, at the ALSO HQ.

If you use a ScanSnap scanner like I do, and you are running macOS 27 Golden Gate, a new software update to ScanSnap has been released that fixes the annoying issue that’s been there throughout the Mac beta period, where ScanSnap Home gets stuck at “Image…

I like the top two comments: “America, do not throw away your shot” and “History Has Its Eyes On Us”.

Ha, reading an online e-bike thread that drifted into a discussion about side-by-side 4x4 vehicles, someone referred to them as “Texas Wheelchairs”

Another PSA: Xcode 27.1 Beta, AKA the one we’ve actually been waiting for, is out.

MKBHD has a good review of the new iPhone 18 Pro.

PSA: Xcode 27.2 Beta is out.

Antonio G.

We just watched the final episode of this year’s Jeopardy!

★★★★★ I recently saw someone post that they didn’t know of an app they liked well enough that could help them quickly determine what time it was in a variety of locations they were working with, so they vibed up/created an app to scratch their itch (free…

I thought the new season of Amazon Prime’s popular action series Reacher started off particularly poorly when it debuted a few weeks ago.

Wonderful!

Wow, what a match!

Spotted: The new ALSO TM-B e-bike.

StarWars.com: The film that started it all, Star Wars (1977) will be presented in IMAX for the first time ever — in digital or on film — as part of its highly anticipated anniversary re-release on February 19, 2027.

So painfully stupid.

★★★★★ I’ve tried many MagSafe travel combo chargers, and had a problem finding a good one.

I’m stopping over at the Frankfurt Airport right now, and just noticed this in the AMEX app when making my way to the Lufthansa lounge: Effective October 1, 2026, eligible Card Members will no longer have access to Lufthansa Lounges via the Global Lounge…

I’m finishing up my latest trip to Poland for work.

Antonio G.

I really wish that Apple would stay out of the ad game.

Sounds like they’re doing great stuff out there in St.

Gah, I’m traveling, and wasn’t on top of this, and now the 70mm IMAX theater in SF is sold out (or only really terrible seats available) as far as tickets are available, into January.

This isn’t for me, but I love to see them swinging for the fences like this.

Chico Harlan, to Michael Barbaro on The Daily podcast: in an El Niño year, the sea surface temperatures, the ocean temperatures in that part of the Pacific, rather than gliding down, stays high and sometimes even keeps increasing.

I’ve got this super expensive, super great propane fire pit to use while camping.

I always think of The Shield as a show no one watched.

Stephanie Bai, writing at The Atlantic: Last year, I asked The Atlantic’s writers and editors to name a perfect episode of TV, but a perfect finale is especially hard to pull off—and nothing invokes the wrath of fans quite like a bad ending.

Kristen A.