Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

It was a Tuesday morning. I was drinking coffee and watching moose tracks fill with fresh snow outside my cabin window when my phone started buzzing. The...

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

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...

Most people hear "homesteading in Alaska" and picture some guy with an axe and a flannel shirt who has never touched a computer. And honestly, some days...

I sold my first digital product on Gumroad in 2023. It was a PDF about API gateway patterns, the cover looked like it was designed in PowerPoint by...

I used to spend two hours every morning reviewing pull requests. Coffee in hand, cabin quiet except for the woodstove popping, just grinding through diffs...

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...

I was standing in my shop last November, staring at a piece of walnut I'd been saving for two years, trying to figure out how to turn a vague idea in my...

I got tired of the same deployment ritual. Create a new Vercel project. Connect the GitHub repo. Set up environment variables. Spin up a new Supabase...

Last month, a developer I mentor showed me an architecture diagram that Claude had generated for his team's new microservices migration. It was beautiful....

Last month I ran a batch classification job through three different models: GPT-4o-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and Claude 3.5 Haiku. Same prompts, same data...

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...

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...

I'm writing this from a cabin in Alaska.

Last Tuesday I was sitting in my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, watching a founder friend struggle over Zoom. He had a Rails app deployed on Heroku, a...

I use Claude every day. Claude Code is my primary development tool. I built a job classifier with Claude Haiku that processes hundreds of job listings...

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....

I've been lifting weights for almost 30 years. Not competitively — just consistently. Three to four days a week, every week, through career changes...

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....