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...

It was a Tuesday morning. I was drinking coffee and watching moose tracks fill with fresh snow outside my cabin window when my phone started buzzing. The...

If you've spent any serious time building with Claude's API, you've noticed the pattern. Mornings on the West Coast? Snappy. Sub-two-second responses on...

Most people hear "homesteading in Alaska" and picture some guy with an axe and a flannel shirt who has never touched a computer. And honestly, some days...

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

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 month, a developer I mentor showed me an architecture diagram that Claude had generated for his team's new microservices migration. It was beautiful....

I used to spend two hours every morning reviewing pull requests. Coffee in hand, cabin quiet except for the woodstove popping, just grinding through diffs...

Last month I ran a batch classification job through three different models: GPT-4o-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and Claude 3.5 Haiku. Same prompts, same data...

I was standing in my shop last November, staring at a piece of walnut I'd been saving for two years, trying to figure out how to turn a vague idea in my...

I'll admit it — I have a model loyalty problem. For the past year, I've defaulted to Claude for nearly everything. Writing articles, debugging code...

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 use Claude every day. Claude Code is my primary development tool. I built a job classifier with Claude Haiku that processes hundreds of job listings...

Last month I tried to feed an entire microservices architecture spec into GPT-4. The spec was about 38,000 tokens — not even that big by enterprise...

I'm writing this from a cabin in Alaska.

Last Tuesday I was sitting in my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, watching a founder friend struggle over Zoom. He had a Rails app deployed on Heroku, a...

Last Tuesday at 11 PM, I had an idea for a small tool — a dashboard that pulls job posting stats from my Grizzly Peak Software job board and shows hiring...

The idea started as a joke.

Last January, a snowstorm knocked out my internet for four days. Not four hours — four days. The satellite dish on the roof of my cabin in Caswell Lakes...

There's a narrative in tech that experience is a liability. That the industry belongs to 25-year-olds grinding 80-hour weeks on energy drinks and novelty....