Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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...

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 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...

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 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 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 —...

Consulting dropped to 15% of my revenue. Digital products, API services, and AI-amplified SaaS filled the gap. Here's the full breakdown.

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...

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.

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...

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

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...