Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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...

Estimating AI project costs is harder than it looks. Learn why token costs compound, what self-hosting really costs, and how to build budgets that hold up.

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 used Cursor for about four months. I was a paying customer. I evangelized it to friends. I thought it was the future of how we'd write software.

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

I spent eighteen years building systems for companies with names you'd recognize. Fortune 500 companies with six-figure infrastructure budgets, compliance...

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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 broke three headlamps last winter before I figured out what was actually going wrong.

It was negative thirty-eight outside and I had just written the most productive code of my entire year.

I made $47.82 in affiliate commissions last month. Let that sink in before you read any further.

I pivoted at forty-nine.

I split a cord of firewood last Tuesday morning before my first standup call.

Here's a truth that most side hustle advice ignores: when you're over fifty, you don't have the same tolerance for busywork that you did at twenty-five.