Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I lost power for three days last January.

My NVMe drive died on the coldest day of last winter. -38F outside, the cabin heater had cycled off during the night, and by the time I woke up the indoor...

I watch grizzly bears forage almost every week during the warmer months. Living in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, that's not a choice — it's just what happens...

My cabin in Caswell Lakes runs on a solar panel array and a battery bank. In the summer, I have more power than I know what to do with — twenty hours of...

The idea of building something functional in 24 hours is intoxicating. Hackathons. Indie hacker challenges. "I built a SaaS in a weekend" Twitter threads....

Every few months, someone on Hacker News posts about their Kubernetes cluster running a personal blog and three microservices. Twenty nodes. Service mesh....

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.