Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Last Tuesday at 11 PM, I had an idea for a small tool — a dashboard that pulls job posting stats from my Grizzly Peak Software job board and shows hiring...

Last month I tried to feed an entire microservices architecture spec into GPT-4. The spec was about 38,000 tokens — not even that big by enterprise...

I'm writing this from a cabin in Alaska.

I've been lifting weights for almost 30 years. Not competitively — just consistently. Three to four days a week, every week, through career changes...

I have a problem. Every time I get an idea for a tool I think is interesting, I want to build it immediately. Not plan it. Not validate it extensively....

There's a narrative in tech that experience is a liability. That the industry belongs to 25-year-olds grinding 80-hour weeks on energy drinks and novelty....

Last Tuesday at 11 PM, I was staring at a bug report from a user of my AutoDetective.ai site. The report said "the results page looks broken on mobile."...

Last January, a snowstorm knocked out my internet for four days. Not four hours — four days. The satellite dish on the roof of my cabin in Caswell Lakes...

Last Tuesday at around 10 PM, I was debugging a database migration while the sky outside my office window turned green.

Last year I applied for a contract role at a company that shall remain nameless. The recruiter was enthusiastic on the phone. My experience matched...

I wanted to see if it was possible to build something genuinely useful — not a toy, not a demo, an actual tool someone would pay for — using nothing but...

I've had pages deindexed. I've had AdSense applications rejected. I've watched a site go from 8,000 indexed pages to 4,000 in a single week — and then...

Nobody tells you this, but most resumes in 2026 are read by machines before they're read by humans.

Let me tell you about a project that went from idea to 8,000+ Google-indexed pages in under a month — running on a $5 server, built by one engineer...

I've been building SaaS features two different ways lately, and the performance gap between them is wider than I expected.

I almost didn't write this article.

Three years ago, I was sitting in a rental in Boise, staring at a terminal, and feeling absolutely nothing.

I've been building websites since the late 1990s. Back then, "passive income" meant building a site about digital cameras, stuffing it with affiliate...

Estimating AI project costs is harder than it looks. Learn why token costs compound, what self-hosting really costs, and how to build budgets that hold up.

I used Cursor for about four months. I was a paying customer. I evangelized it to friends. I thought it was the future of how we'd write software.