If you previously opened a PR on the Harper repo, and you have a test failing mysteriously, please merge the recent commits from master.

I wish I could tell myself there isn't a platonic ideal of software engineering methodologies. That there is more than one way of doing things that is Good™.

I work with these people! codeforthepeople.com

God, this speaks to me. jerodsanto.net/2026/06/clau...

slop paralysis - noun A complete or partial loss of function while reviewing the output of a coding agent. elijahpotter.dev/articles/slo...

and here‘s your daily maths-pop culture crossover brought to you by yours truly

Another project using Harper: Phraise github.com/hqrrr/Phraise

I am pleased to say, with much fanfare, that Andrew Dunbar (known by online moniker hippietrail) is becoming Harper's first committer. elijahpotter.dev/articles/har...

Star Trek captains are great role models for technology governance. They see a harmful technology and… don't use it. They see a technology that can be harmful and… develop policies for themselves for how to use it responsibly.

While reading an old essay of mine, I was reminded of the wonderful book by Robert Persig titled Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It serves to help anyone in any profession, but I think it speaks particularly well to the lives of open source maintainers. elijahpotter.dev/articles/zen...

The new Olivia Rodrigo album is so unbelievably good.

Neat! It looks like they used Harper. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/i-...

sinclairtarget.com/blog/2026/06... This is, far and away, the best blog post I have read in months, if not ever.

Programming with an agent is simply not as fun.

They used Harper to write a book? Awesome.

OpenVSX is in read only mode. How inconvenient.

Day #422 of going back to restart all of the GitHub Actions workflows that stopped mid-run due to another outage.

Currently battling a ton of bugs in Harper Desktop. Expect major improvements in the coming days.

Cool to see that QOwnNotes supports Harper! www.qownnotes.org/editor/harpe...

Alex Kladov is an amazing engineer. His blog is word-class. I highly recommend his latest essay on good software architecture. matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/s...

Sharing this a bit late, but I recently reflected on my blog on the importance of capital-Q "Quality" while iterating on Harper Desktop. elijahpotter.dev/articles/pro...

Done. github.com/Automattic/h...

Jason Adams just merged a delightful redesign of the Harper editor. github.com/Automattic/h...

Open sourcing is slightly delayed. Currently in integration hell, as Shane Wighton would say.

Will be making Harper Desktop open source tomorrow. Stay tuned.

I am adoring the "web style" lints that stanleywang.dev recently added to the Harper Obsidian plugin. You can enable them in the plugin's settings right now!

I'm pleased to say that the macOS app is coming along swimmingly. I am currently able to: 1. Read text from arbitrary textareas in supported apps. 2. Lint said text. 3. Render highlights on the screen. Next: rendering and applying suggestion popups.

We're making a desktop app. elijahpotter.dev/articles/bui...

Someone recently told me that their sister's grades improved by a whole letter when they started using Harper. Warm fuzzy feelings all around.

Harper is a small project, but we have extremely lofty ambitions. It's more important than ever that we work together to keep the act of writing sacred. What you write should be yours, no matter what. elijahpotter.dev/articles/we-...

Hey all! We're finally releasing Harper 2.0. Why? It isn't because we have any new groundbreaking features in this release, because we don't let major versioning stop us from pushing those out as soon as they're ready. It's because we have some breaking changes. elijahpotter.dev/articles/har...

I've found that uBlock Origin filter lists are a surprisingly effective way to turn attention grabbing social media websites into something tolerable.

"Grammarly’s Expert Review feature serves as a case in point for how people feel about generative AI at the moment..."

I realized I was focusing on the process of getting stuff done, instead of focusing on how to actually get that same stuff done. That is the wrong way to go about #productivity. elijahpotter.dev/articles/out...

AI agents can be enormously helpful. The key word is "can". It is not always a guarantee. elijahpotter.dev/articles/whe...

I've been watching this project for some time now. What would it take to package it into a Tauri app?

It looks like we may need to start pressing harder on the desktop app experience. allnarfedup.blog/2026/01/16/b...

Grammarly is systematically destroying their user's trust in their product. Watching @reckless.bsky.social's interview gives me the impression that their CEO is incredibly disconnected from the experiences of their users. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

TIL: Apple and Microsoft have better credit ratings than the U.S. Government

Riveting www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tA...

To provide a framework which reduces the amount of time that overly complex patch requests produced by LLMs can take to address, I've put together this policy. I hope this helps streamline the process and make it easier to handle these requests efficiently. elijahpotter.dev/articles/har...

My thirst for the written word had given me a superpower. elijahpotter.dev/articles/my_...

These are exactly the kinds of problems Harper avoids by virtue of being open source.

Take back your writing with writewithharper.com

I know all press is good press... but there are limits. If it feels like Grammarly does not respect your right to digital sovereignty, it is because it does not. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I've been seeing an increasingly prevalent trend of people proudly flaunting that they are writing with the assistance of AI. elijahpotter.dev/articles/do_... #AIwriting #ArtificialIntelligence #Creativity #ContentCreation

As an open source maintainer, I frequently both receive and create pull requests that could be labeled as slop. So my question becomes, how can I turn AI generated code from "slop" tier to "top tier"? elijahpotter.dev/articles/ref...

I've been thinking a lot about why so much software feels harmful, and it got me wondering how we can build software that truly serves humans. elijahpotter.dev/articles/bui... #oss

Harper will soon support LaTeX. github.com/Automattic/h...

Someone new is using Harper behind-the-scenes for grammar checking. Check out Tally! tally.johng.io/en