Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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

I published a technical book about training large language models. Not a pamphlet — a real book with working code examples, architecture diagrams, and...

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

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...

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

Three years ago I couldn't walk up the hill behind my cabin without stopping to catch my breath. I was 49, I'd been sitting at a desk for the better part...

My phone buzzed at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. A Slack message from a client in London. "Quick question about the API integration — can you take a look?"

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 spent two weeks throwing the hardest problems I could find at OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1. Not toy benchmarks. Not "write me a poem about a cat." I'm...

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

I have gotten pricing wrong more times than I've gotten it right. That's not false modesty — it's 30 years of launching products and watching perfectly...

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

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

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...