Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

My first royalty check from Amazon was $47.32. That was for an entire quarter of sales of a technical book that took me the better part of eight months to...

There's a particular kind of silence that happens at 9 PM in Caswell Lakes, Alaska in January. It's negative thirty outside. The aurora is doing something...

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...

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

I lost power for three days last January.

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...

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 made $47.82 in affiliate commissions last month. Let that sink in before you read any further.

Last January, it hit minus 38 in Caswell Lakes. Not wind chill — actual air temperature. At that point, the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius...

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...

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.

It was negative thirty-eight outside and I had just written the most productive code of my entire year.

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...

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...

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...