Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Let me be honest about the Amazon book sales first: they were meager.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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

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 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.