Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Last month I launched a new digital product on Gumroad — a 40-page PDF guide on building production-ready API gateways. The entire launch process, from...

I have a trail camera problem. Specifically, I have fourteen trail cameras scattered across the woods around my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, and every...

Last September I pulled a twenty-pound king salmon out of the Susitna River, brought it home to the cabin, and realized I had absolutely no idea what the...

My cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska runs on solar panels and a battery bank. During the winter, when we get about five hours of usable daylight and...

Last February I stood outside my cabin at 2 AM in minus thirty degrees, watching the sky do something that no monitor has ever accurately reproduced. The...

I broke three pieces of walnut last winter trying to build a bookshelf.

Last October I got turned around on a ridge above the Little Susitna River. Not dangerously lost — I knew roughly where I was — but the game trail I'd...

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.

I broke three headlamps last winter before I figured out what was actually going wrong.

When you live in a cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, you learn quickly that the margin between "everything is fine" and "everything is a problem" is thinner...

I live with bears. Not metaphorically. Not in the cute "I saw a bear once at a national park" sense. I mean I walk to my truck in the morning and check...

There's a narrative floating around tech Twitter that older engineers are going to get replaced by AI. That the twenty-three-year-old who grew up with...

Nobody tells you this, but most resumes in 2026 are read by machines before they're read by humans.

I turned 52 this year. I've been writing software since Reagan was president. I've survived more technology transitions than I can count — mainframes to...

I've been lifting weights for almost 30 years. Not competitively — just consistently. Three to four days a week, every week, through career changes...

I got tired of the same deployment ritual. Create a new Vercel project. Connect the GitHub repo. Set up environment variables. Spin up a new Supabase...

I've had pages deindexed. I've had AdSense applications rejected. I've watched a site go from 8,000 indexed pages to 4,000 in a single week — and then...

I sold my first digital product on Gumroad in 2023. It was a PDF about API gateway patterns, the cover looked like it was designed in PowerPoint by...

Last February, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, my battery bank voltage dropped to 11.2V at 3 AM. The inverter alarm woke me up. It was -28°F outside...

At 6 AM on a Saturday, I made the kind of decision that only sounds reasonable when you're on your second pot of coffee and the temperature outside is...