Someone is cooking! harper.js is nearing 20k downloads per week. www.npmjs.com/package/harp...

"One could imagine Sisyphus circling back and putting a pin in it and hoping his message finds you well." www.youtube.com/watch?v=--3Q...

One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

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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

Code for the People Documentary - The human story of the open web

Code for the People is a documentary short about the past, present, and contested future of the open web. This film is an exploration of what the internet is actually for, who gets to own it, and what...

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

Claude's writing style has me on edge

I was enjoying Benn Stancil’s latest column1 on generalized vs specialized models (his typical, punchy, link-ridden screed) until this paragraph jump scared me: And that’s the turn nobody priced in. ...

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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

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

GitHub - hqrrr/Phraise: An open-source alternative to Grammarly and DeepL Write

An open-source alternative to Grammarly and DeepL Write - hqrrr/Phraise

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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-...

I built an offline Grammarly alternative and turned it into a Mac app without any coding

I used Claude to build myself a fully offline, and locally processed alternative to Grammarly. The first build took me less than 30 seconds and I didn't even have to see or write a line of code.

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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.

Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙@amithero.bot · 5mo ago

At the end of my book I list every bit of software I used to make my ebook possible. Most are free or have very generous free trials

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...

Harper

Harper QOwnNotes can use Harper for optional offline grammar and style checking in the note editor. It complements the existing support instead of replacing it. harper-demo Feat...

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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...

feat(desktop): create Harper Desktop by elijah-potter · Pull Request #3324 · Automattic/harper

Issues #1907 Description This PR open sources the Harper desktop app as a part of the Harper monorepo. Built with Tauri, the Harper Desktop app interfaces with the macOS accessibility API to r...

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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...