Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

20,000 Pages in 14 Months: What Actually Works in Programmatic SEO (2026)
Business
20,000 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.

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AI for Bear Safety: A Wildlife Risk Diagnostic Tool That Could Actually Save Lives
AI
AI 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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Copilot vs. Claude: 2026 Predictions and Hacks for Enterprise-Level Coding
AI
Copilot 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...

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Claude Code Quality Drops: 6 Fixes That Actually Work (2026)
AI
Claude 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.

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Cross-Pollinating Audiences: How a Job Board Feeds a Diagnostics Tool (and Vice Versa)
Business
Cross-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...

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Balancing Craftsman Life with Software Income Streams
Career
Balancing Craftsman Life with Software Income Streams

I split a cord of firewood last Tuesday morning before my first standup call.

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Alaskan Affiliate Empire: Promoting Gear I Actually Use
Business
Alaskan Affiliate Empire: Promoting Gear I Actually Use

I made $47.82 in affiliate commissions last month. Let that sink in before you read any further.

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The Hidden Cost of Always-On Culture (And How I Fixed It)
Career
The Hidden Cost of Always-On Culture (And How I Fixed It)

My phone buzzed at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. A Slack message from a client in London. "Quick question about the API integration — can you take a look?"

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Career Advice I Wish I Had at 40 (From a 52-Year-Old Coder)
Career
Career Advice I Wish I Had at 40 (From a 52-Year-Old Coder)

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...

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24-Hour SaaS Challenge: AI-Powered Cabin Maintenance Tracker
AI
24-Hour SaaS Challenge: AI-Powered Cabin Maintenance Tracker

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...

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Affiliate Layering: Books, Tools, and SaaS Upsells That Actually Pay
Business
Affiliate Layering: Books, Tools, and SaaS Upsells That Actually Pay

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

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Pivoting Careers in Tech: My Job Board for Burned-Out Engineers
Career
Pivoting Careers in Tech: My Job Board for Burned-Out Engineers

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

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The 50+ Dev's Guide to Learning New LLMs Without Overwhelm
AI
The 50+ Dev's Guide to Learning New LLMs Without Overwhelm

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...

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The 2021 Indie Hacker Playbook Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It
Business
The 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.

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o1 vs. R1 Reasoning Models: Which Actually Solves Hard Problems Better?
AI
o1 vs. R1 Reasoning Models: Which Actually Solves Hard Problems Better?

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...

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Off-Grid Power Diagnostics: How I Extended Car AI Concepts to My Battery Bank
AI
Off-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...

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Avoiding Burnout While Chasing Revenue Goals
Career
Avoiding 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...

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Agentic Coding: How I Let AI Agents Handle My Entire Book Launch Pipeline
AI
Agentic 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...

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Stop Juggling Port Numbers: Portless Gives Your Dev Servers Named URLs
Modern Development Tools
Stop 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.

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