Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

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 I was sitting in my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, watching a founder friend struggle over Zoom. He had a Rails app deployed on Heroku, a...

The idea started as a joke.

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....

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."...

It was a Tuesday morning. I was drinking coffee and watching moose tracks fill with fresh snow outside my cabin window when my phone started buzzing. The...

Let me tell you what nobody at those "passive income" conferences wants to admit: most side projects don't make money. They make traffic. They make GitHub...