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Building a Harper Desktop App
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/building_a_harper_desktop_app
Published: April 15, 2026 20:21
Building a Harper Desktop App
Harper is a grammar checker that makes sure that your writing is exactly that: yours.
Today, we will be starting some new and hopefully awesome work towards that mission.
Harper has long been available in Chrome, Firefox,…
We Are in This Together
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/we_are_in_this_together
Published: April 13, 2026 00:00
We Are in This Together
Today, Jason Adams joined me and some of the other Automatticians based in the Denver area for a burrito.
It's a tradition we call Burrito Friday.
Automatticians from a local area get together for laughs, chats, and burritos on some…
Harper 2.0
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/harper_2.0
Published: April 9, 2026 00:00
Harper 2.0
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…
Outcome over Process
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/outcome_over_process
Published: April 3, 2026 00:00
Outcome over Process
For the past few weeks, I've been thinking about I can be more productive.
In particular, I've been thinking about how I can eliminate waste to give myself time to work on things that matter.
These efforts have been partially…
When to Use an Agent
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/when_to_use_an_agent
Published: March 27, 2026 00:00
When (Not) to Use an Agent
There are times where it is prudent to use an AI agent (like Codex) aggressively. There are other times where they should be avoided like the plague. The question of into which bucket a particular endeavor falls is difficult to…
Harper's Policy on Agent PRs
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/harper's_policy_on_agent_PRs
Published: March 23, 2026 00:00
Harper's Policy on PRs Authored by Agents
A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak at my local chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Being on a college campus — in this case, the Colorado School of Mines — much of my audience were…
My Superpower
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/my_superpower
Published: March 14, 2026 00:00
My Superpower
In high school, I was an insatiable consumer of science fiction.
In hindsight, it is unbelievable how much time I spent reading instead of doing the other things usually considered to be typical for teenagers (going out, doing homework,…