Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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 built a job board because I kept getting the same email.

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 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...

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.

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

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...

I hit a wall in October 2024. Not a metaphorical wall — a real, physical, I-can't-get-out-of-bed wall. My hands were shaking from too much caffeine. I was...

Portless by Vercel Labs replaces localhost port numbers with stable named URLs. Here's how it works, who it's for, and why AI coding agents care about it.

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

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

My cabin in Caswell Lakes runs on a solar panel array and a battery bank. In the summer, I have more power than I know what to do with — twenty hours of...

My NVMe drive died on the coldest day of last winter. -38F outside, the cabin heater had cycled off during the night, and by the time I woke up the indoor...