Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I'm writing this from a cabin in Alaska.

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...

Last January, the temperature at my cabin in Caswell Lakes hit negative 42 degrees Fahrenheit. The diesel generator ran nonstop. My Starlink dish had so...

The idea started as a joke.

I use Claude every day. Claude Code is my primary development tool. I built a job classifier with Claude Haiku that processes hundreds of job listings...

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...

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."...

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....

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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.