Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

If you've spent any serious time building with Claude's API, you've noticed the pattern. Mornings on the West Coast? Snappy. Sub-two-second responses on...

I sold my first digital product on Gumroad in 2023. It was a PDF about API gateway patterns, the cover looked like it was designed in PowerPoint by...

Most people hear "homesteading in Alaska" and picture some guy with an axe and a flannel shirt who has never touched a computer. And honestly, some days...

Last January, it hit minus 38 in Caswell Lakes. Not wind chill — actual air temperature. At that point, the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius...

The idea of building something functional in 24 hours is intoxicating. Hackathons. Indie hacker challenges. "I built a SaaS in a weekend" Twitter threads....

I wrote 200 lines of code this morning before the sun came up. Then I went outside and split a cord of birch in minus fifteen degrees. Then I came back...

Everybody wants to talk about growth hacking. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when you have literally zero dollars to spend on it.

I broke three pieces of walnut last winter trying to build a bookshelf.

Every few months, someone on Hacker News posts about their Kubernetes cluster running a personal blog and three microservices. Twenty nodes. Service mesh....

Last month I ran a batch classification job through three different models: GPT-4o-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and Claude 3.5 Haiku. Same prompts, same data...

I used to spend two hours every morning reviewing pull requests. Coffee in hand, cabin quiet except for the woodstove popping, just grinding through diffs...

I'll admit it — I have a model loyalty problem. For the past year, I've defaulted to Claude for nearly everything. Writing articles, debugging code...

I watched a site with 40,000 AI-generated pages lose 92% of its traffic in a single Google algorithm update. Forty thousand pages. Built over six months....

I was standing in my shop last November, staring at a piece of walnut I'd been saving for two years, trying to figure out how to turn a vague idea in my...

Last month, a developer I mentor showed me an architecture diagram that Claude had generated for his team's new microservices migration. It was beautiful....

I got tired of the same deployment ritual. Create a new Vercel project. Connect the GitHub repo. Set up environment variables. Spin up a new Supabase...

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...

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...

The idea started as a joke.

I'm writing this from a cabin in Alaska.