Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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

Last month I tried to feed an entire microservices architecture spec into GPT-4. The spec was about 38,000 tokens — not even that big by enterprise...

It was 11 PM on a Tuesday, and I was in the middle of a productive Claude Code session — refactoring the job board on Grizzly Peak Software — when...

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...

I'll admit it — I have a model loyalty problem. For the past year, I've defaulted to Claude for nearly everything. Writing articles, debugging code...

Last Tuesday at 11 PM, I had an idea for a small tool — a dashboard that pulls job posting stats from my Grizzly Peak Software job board and shows hiring...

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

Let me be honest about the Amazon book sales first: they were meager.

The idea started as a joke.

I have a problem. Every time I get an idea for a tool I think is interesting, I want to build it immediately. Not plan it. Not validate it extensively....

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'm writing this from a cabin in Alaska.

Let me tell you about a project that went from idea to 8,000+ Google-indexed pages in under a month — running on a $5 server, built by one engineer...

There's a narrative in tech that experience is a liability. That the industry belongs to 25-year-olds grinding 80-hour weeks on energy drinks and novelty....

A hands-on first look at gws, Google's new Workspace CLI. Covers Windows setup gotchas, MCP server integration with Claude Code, and practical agentic workflow patterns for Drive, Gmail, and Calendar.

Build production-grade SEO crawler tools for free using Claude Code and Open Claw. Five real projects with runnable JavaScript code. No subscriptions.

Complete guide to using NGINX as an API gateway in 2026, covering configuration, load balancing, rate limiting, and the Kubernetes ingress-nginx retirement.

Learn how to generate QR codes with Node.js — from basic PNG files to a full Express API with customization, bulk generation, and production tips.

Compare Bruno vs Postman in 2026. We break down storage, pricing, performance, and collaboration to help you pick the right API client.

The story of a whiteboard frustration, a late-night coding session, and the absurdly fun journey of shipping a real product before the motivation wore off.