Articles by Grizzly Peak Software
The Hidden Revenue Streams in Tech Writing: From Amazon Books to Affiliate Empires
Let me be honest about the Amazon book sales first: they were meager.
Read ArticleBuilding Community in Remote Alaska: Online and In Real Life
There's a particular kind of silence that happens at 9 PM in Caswell Lakes, Alaska in January. It's negative thirty outside. The aurora is doing something...
Read Article52-Week Indie Challenge: One Revenue Experiment Per Week
I woke up on January 1st, 2026, with a hangover and an idea. What if I spent the entire year running one small revenue experiment per week? Not building...
Read ArticleAurora Photography Meets AI: My Workflow for Capturing and Editing the Northern Lights in Alaska
Last February I stood outside my cabin at 2 AM in minus thirty degrees, watching the sky do something that no monitor has ever accurately reproduced. The...
Read ArticleBuilding a Survival Gear Diagnostic AI Agent (Alaska-Inspired Extension of AutoDetective)
I built AutoDetective.ai to help people diagnose car problems. Type in your symptoms — weird noise from the engine, check engine light, rough idle — and...
Read ArticleWildlife Photography Meets Computer Vision: Experiments from an Alaskan Cabin
I have a trail camera problem. Specifically, I have fourteen trail cameras scattered across the woods around my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, and every...
Read ArticleNature-Inspired Algorithms: What Grizzly Foraging Taught Me About Search Optimization
I watch grizzly bears forage almost every week during the warmer months. Living in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, that's not a choice — it's just what happens...
Read ArticleThe Death of Traditional IDEs? My 2026 Stack Reveal
I haven't opened IntelliJ in six months. I haven't touched WebStorm since October. The last time I launched a full-fat IDE with a project wizard, a...
Read ArticleSoftware Engineering After 50: AI Made Me Faster, Not Obsolete
I turned 52 this year. I've been writing code professionally since I was 19. That's 33 years of shipping software, watching paradigms come and go, and...
Read ArticleFrom Burnout to 3 Products Live: My 6-Month Rebuild Story
Six months ago, I couldn't write a single line of code without feeling like the walls were closing in. I'd sit down at my desk, open my editor, stare at...
Read ArticleRemote Work in Alaska: Challenges and Hacks for Reliable Internet
The first time my internet went out during a production incident, I was standing on my porch at 2 AM in negative thirty degrees, brushing snow off a...
Read ArticleThe Annoying Things Copilot Still Inserts (And How to Kill Them Permanently)
I like GitHub Copilot. I genuinely do. It saves me time every single day. But there are moments — and they happen more often than I'd like to admit —...
Read ArticleThe 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...
Read ArticlePivoting Careers in Tech: My Job Board for Burned-Out Engineers
I built a job board because I kept getting the same email.
Read Article24-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...
Read ArticleCareer 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...
Read ArticleBuilding a Cabin? Use AI for Structural Load Calculations
I almost killed myself with a roof beam.
Read ArticleAI 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...
Read ArticleAgentic 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...
Read ArticleGrizzly Lessons for Devs: What Alaskan Wildlife Teaches Us About Resilient Code
Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.
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