Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

I shipped twelve products last year. Not twelve ideas. Not twelve prototypes gathering dust on GitHub. Twelve things that real people could sign up for...

Every Sunday morning, before I do anything else, I sit down at my desk with a cup of black coffee and open the same five browser tabs I've opened every...

Everybody wants to talk about growth hacking. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when you have literally zero dollars to spend on it.

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...

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 hit a wall in October 2024. Not a metaphorical wall — a real, physical, I-can't-get-out-of-bed wall. My hands were shaking from too much caffeine. I was...

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 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...

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...

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

I split a cord of firewood last Tuesday morning before my first standup call.

Consulting dropped to 15% of my revenue. Digital products, API services, and AI-amplified SaaS filled the gap. Here's the full breakdown.

Here's a truth that most side hustle advice ignores: when you're over fifty, you don't have the same tolerance for busywork that you did at twenty-five.

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

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...

Let me tell you what nobody at those "passive income" conferences wants to admit: most side projects don't make money. They make traffic. They make GitHub...

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...