Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Three years ago, I was sitting in a rental in Boise, staring at a terminal, and feeling absolutely nothing.

Nobody tells you this, but most resumes in 2026 are read by machines before they're read by humans.

I've been building SaaS features two different ways lately, and the performance gap between them is wider than I expected.

I used Cursor for about four months. I was a paying customer. I evangelized it to friends. I thought it was the future of how we'd write software.

Estimating AI project costs is harder than it looks. Learn why token costs compound, what self-hosting really costs, and how to build budgets that hold up.

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've been building websites since the late 1990s. Back then, "passive income" meant building a site about digital cameras, stuffing it with affiliate...

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

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...

I woke up on January 1st, 2026, with a hangover and an idea. What if I spent the entire year running one small revenue experiment per week? Not building...

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...

I built AutoDetective.ai to help people diagnose car problems. Type in your symptoms — weird noise from the engine, check engine light, rough idle — and...

Six months ago, I couldn't write a single line of code without feeling like the walls were closing in. I'd sit down at my desk, open my editor, stare at...

I haven't opened IntelliJ in six months. I haven't touched WebStorm since October. The last time I launched a full-fat IDE with a project wizard, a...

I turned 52 this year. I've been writing code professionally since I was 19. That's 33 years of shipping software, watching paradigms come and go, and...

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 like GitHub Copilot. I genuinely do. It saves me time every single day. But there are moments — and they happen more often than I'd like to admit —...

The first time my internet went out during a production incident, I was standing on my porch at 2 AM in negative thirty degrees, brushing snow off a...

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...

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.