Greg Scown

TIL Face ID doesn’t work when you have shaving cream on. Oops. 🪒

31.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just finished “Tapper’s Day Off,” which was of course a joy to read. Thanks, @dmoren!

23.09.2025 00:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Response to API feedback at #makewithnotion: “Noted.” Not: let’s see if X is here from our API or developer relations team. Not: here’s how to file a feature request or here’s our roadmap. Very strange.

18.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TIL There is a subreddit called RateMyTortilla to rate one’s Spanish tortilla*.

basically an egg, potato, and onion omelette. One cooks thinly-sliced potato and onion low and slow in olive oil, strains, cools, combines with eggs, cooks low and slow, flips, and finishes. Yum.

30.06.2025 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lasagne.

24.02.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TIL: “roller coaster” in Russian “американские горки” (“Amerikanskiye gorki”) translates literally to “American hills”.

It’s pretty much the opposite of the fascinating origin of “roller coaster” in Spanish, which is “montaña rusa” or “Russian mountain.”

30.01.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, but yes?

Asked ChatGPT if 53 is a prime number. It responded:

“No, 53 is a prime number…”

22.01.2025 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s the result. Tastes good. (Phew!)

19.01.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mise en place for tadka dal. My first time, so I hope it comes out well.

19.01.2025 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let’s add insurance companies (here’s looking at you, Farmers) to the list of companies which block Americans traveling abroad:

codecookread.com/dont-bloc…

16.01.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Notes from Barcelona: Calçotada: https://codecookread.com/notes-from-barcelona-calcotada/

13.01.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Bonobos Fail. We're currently unable to offer products and services to customers in the European Economic Area. We apologize for the invonvenience.

Fidelity Warning. You are using Fidelity.com from outside of the United States… I Decline or I Accept. Simple.

Americans Travel. Please Don’t Block Us.: https://codecookread.com/dont-block-americans-traveling-abroad/

07.01.2025 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0