Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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...

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

Last month I launched a new digital product on Gumroad — a 40-page PDF guide on building production-ready API gateways. The entire launch process, from...

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 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 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...

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

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...

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

I spent eighteen years building systems for companies with names you'd recognize. Fortune 500 companies with six-figure infrastructure budgets, compliance...

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...

When you live in a cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, you learn quickly that the margin between "everything is fine" and "everything is a problem" is thinner...

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...

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...

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?"

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...

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

Every Sunday morning, before I do anything else, I sit down at my desk with a cup of black coffee and open the same five browser tabs I've opened every...

The first dollar you make online feels different from every dollar after it.