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Greg Scown
@macgreg.bsky.social
Advising, investing in, and mentoring bootstrapped technical founders. Co-founder: TextExpander. Builder: Founder Partners.
TIL Face ID doesn’t work when you have shaving cream on. Oops. 🪒
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Just finished “Tapper’s Day Off,” which was of course a joy to read. Thanks, @dmoren!
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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.
September 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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.
June 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Lasagne.
February 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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.”
January 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
No, but yes?

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

“No, 53 is a prime number…”
January 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Here’s the result. Tastes good. (Phew!)
January 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Mise en place for tadka dal. My first time, so I hope it comes out well.
January 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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…
January 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
January 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Americans Travel. Please Don’t Block Us.: https://codecookread.com/dont-block-americans-traveling-abroad/
January 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM