Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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...

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.

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...

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.

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

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...

Last Tuesday I closed my laptop at 2:30 PM, laced up my boots, and walked three miles through birch forest with nothing but a thermos of coffee and a dog...

I spent two weeks throwing the hardest problems I could find at OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1. Not toy benchmarks. Not "write me a poem about a cat." I'm...

At 6 AM on a Saturday, I made the kind of decision that only sounds reasonable when you're on your second pot of coffee and the temperature outside is...

Most affiliate advice sounds like it was written by someone who has never actually earned a meaningful check from affiliate revenue.

I built a job board because I kept getting the same email.

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

I turned 52 this year. I've been writing software since Reagan was president. I've survived more technology transitions than I can count — mainframes to...

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 pivoted at forty-nine.

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...

There's a narrative floating around tech Twitter that older engineers are going to get replaced by AI. That the twenty-three-year-old who grew up with...

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.

I've been living on a homestead in Caswell Lakes, Alaska for a while now. And every single day, I run into problems that software should be solving but...