Articles by Grizzly Peak Software
Stop Hand-Rolling PDF Parsers: Build Intelligent Document Pipelines with LangExtract
LangExtract brings schema enforcement, source grounding, and multi-pass extraction to any LLM. Here's how to build a real PDF intelligence pipeline.
Read ArticleBuilding an EPUB Viewer in One Night with Claude Code
I built an open-source EPUB reader in one night using Claude Code — drag, drop, read, and analyze your book before it goes live.
Read ArticleBuild a Python AI Agent in 50 Lines: Tools, Memory, and the Loop That Runs It All
Frameworks hide the loop. This tutorial builds a working Python AI agent in 50 lines, then adds a tool registry, memory, and multi-agent patterns.
Read ArticleCross-Promoting SaaS: How My Job Board Feeds AutoDetective Traffic
Last month I was looking at my analytics for AutoDetective.ai and noticed something I wasn't expecting. A non-trivial chunk of referral traffic was coming...
Read ArticleBuilding a Cabin? Use AI for Structural Load Calculations
I almost killed myself with a roof beam.
Read ArticleCross-Pollinating Audiences: How a Job Board Feeds a Diagnostics Tool (and Vice Versa)
Most developers build one product at a time and market it in isolation. I know because I did this for years and it's an incredibly inefficient way to...
Read ArticleCopilot vs. Claude: 2026 Predictions and Hacks for Enterprise-Level Coding
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...
Read ArticleHomesteading Side Hustles: From Woodworking to Digital Products
My neighbor Carl sells firewood.
Read ArticleThe 2021 Indie Hacker Playbook Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It
Consulting dropped to 15% of my revenue. Digital products, API services, and AI-amplified SaaS filled the gap. Here's the full breakdown.
Read Article20,000 Pages in 14 Months: What Actually Works in Programmatic SEO (2026)
I scaled a site from 800 to 20,000 indexed pages. Google punished the thin ones and rewarded the rest. Real traffic, revenue, and infrastructure costs inside.
Read ArticleGrizzly Lessons for Devs: What Alaskan Wildlife Teaches Us About Resilient Code
Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.
Read ArticleAI Diagnostics for Off-Grid Living: Solar Panel + Battery Health Checker
Last February, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, my battery bank voltage dropped to 11.2V at 3 AM. The inverter alarm woke me up. It was -28°F outside...
Read ArticleClaude Code Quality Drops: 6 Fixes That Actually Work (2026)
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.
Read ArticleAgentic Coding: How I Let AI Agents Handle My Entire Book Launch Pipeline
I published a technical book about training large language models. Not a pamphlet — a real book with working code examples, architecture diagrams, and...
Read ArticleStop Juggling Port Numbers: Portless Gives Your Dev Servers Named URLs
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.
Read ArticleAvoiding Burnout While Chasing Revenue Goals
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...
Read ArticleThe Grizzly Mindset for Resilient Software Architecture
I lost power for three days last January.
Read ArticlePivoting Careers in Tech: My Job Board for Burned-Out Engineers
I built a job board because I kept getting the same email.
Read ArticleOff-Grid Power Diagnostics: How I Extended Car AI Concepts to My Battery Bank
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...
Read ArticleAI for Bear Safety: A Wildlife Risk Diagnostic Tool That Could Actually Save Lives
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...
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