Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I scaled a site from 800 to 20,000 indexed pages. Google punished the thin ones and rewarded the rest. Real traffic, revenue, and infrastructure costs inside.

I spent eighteen years building systems for companies with names you'd recognize. Fortune 500 companies with six-figure infrastructure budgets, compliance...

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

I spent most of my career being the guy who knew things.

I've spent more on AI tools than groceries in the last 18 months. In Alaska, that's a lot of milk. Here's what actually earned its keep — and what was a waste.

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

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 month I shipped three digital products on Gumroad in a single weekend. Not garbage products — actual useful things that people are buying. A prompt...

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

Portless by Vercel Labs replaces localhost port numbers with stable named URLs. Here's how it works, who it's for, and why AI coding agents care about it.

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...

I gave away the first three chapters of my book for free. People told me I was crazy.

Your Claude session started great and now it's writing junior-level code. Here's why it happens and 6 practitioner-tested fixes to get quality back.

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 turned 40 in 2014. Obama was in office, Docker was barely a year old, and I was deep into a career trajectory that I thought was going exactly where it...

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...

Let me start with the take that will probably annoy people: GitHub Copilot is going to dominate enterprise development by mid-2026, and if you're building...

I built a job board because I kept getting the same email.