Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I gave away the first three chapters of my book for free. People told me I was crazy.

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

I broke three headlamps last winter before I figured out what was actually going wrong.

I have gotten pricing wrong more times than I've gotten it right. That's not false modesty — it's 30 years of launching products and watching perfectly...

I lost power for three days last January.

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...

AI Overviews crushed my reference content. Experience-based articles held. I rebuilt my SEO strategy around what LLMs can't replicate.

I pivoted at forty-nine.

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.

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...

Here's a truth that most side hustle advice ignores: when you're over fifty, you don't have the same tolerance for busywork that you did at twenty-five.

I published a technical book about training large language models. Not a pamphlet — a real book with working code examples, architecture diagrams, and...

I posted a thread on X last month about the mistakes I made deploying a Node.js application to DigitalOcean's App Platform. It got about 40,000...

Last October I got turned around on a ridge above the Little Susitna River. Not dangerously lost — I knew roughly where I was — but the game trail I'd...

Last September I pulled a twenty-pound king salmon out of the Susitna River, brought it home to the cabin, and realized I had absolutely no idea what the...

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...

I used to work seventy-hour weeks and convince myself it was ambition.

Three years ago I couldn't walk up the hill behind my cabin without stopping to catch my breath. I was 49, I'd been sitting at a desk for the better part...

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.