Elijah Potter's Blog

Photography as Meditation The goal of meditation is to become more mindful and aware.

The Art of Exception English is an area of interest littered with edge cases.

On Linkarzu’s YouTube I consider myself an avid member of the Neovim community.

Footguns of the Rust WebAssembly Target WebAssembly—even after several years of standardization—is still a nascent technology.

The Books I Read in February and March 2025 In a world containing TikTok, YouTube and a vast array of other apps that profit off human attention, it takes effort to place our focus on things that truly benefit our minds.

The One Hard Thing People (myself included) love to make cascading lists of tasks.

3 Traits of Good Test Suites As evidenced by my previous posts on LLM-Assisted Fuzzing, I’ve been dedicating a lot of my mental bandwidth to maintaining a low false-positive rate while we improve Harper’s rule coverage.

LLM-Assisted Fuzzing: A New Approach to False-Positives Preface: this post was actually written on February 24th, despite being published today.

Harper Is in Cursor and Visual Studio Code Harper is a grammar checker for developers.

Never Wait Preface: This post is specifically about Pull Requests for Harper.

Prompting Large Language Models In Bash Scripts I’ve been experimenting with using LLMs locally for generating datasets to test Harper against.

A Harper Record When we started work on harper.js, our goal was simple.

The Books I Read in January 2025 I only got to read two full books this month.

Notifications I have found that the first couple hours of the day are my most productive.

The Three Steps to an Apology My grandmother is a wonderful woman.

The Best 25 Bucks I Ever Spent Earlier this year (I don’t remember the exact day or month) I decided, screw it, I’m going to try using a flip phone.

Why You Need sccache As the maintainer of a reasonably popular open source project written in Rust, I find myself cloning PRs and swapping between branches dozens of times a day.

The Best Books I Read This Year This year I’ve been reading a lot more.

For The Love of iframes.

Naming Harper Someone recently asked me where the name Harper came from.

The Simplest Neovim Markdown Setup I am not one who enjoys complexity.

What Blasterhacks Taught Me About Leadership The Beginning Although it was several months ago, I remember it like it was yesterday.

The Optimal Workspace There are a number of grand challenges my generation faces.

Stupid-Simple Spell-Check For the last month, I’ve been spending a lot of time replacing one key component of my writing and programming environment: my grammar checker.

Markov Chains are the Original Language Models Heads Up: This article is a republished (with some tweaks on spelling, grammar and layout) version of an article I wrote in my senior year of high school for my Linear Algebra class.

How I Built a Software Render Engine from Scratch Heads Up: This article is a republished (with some tweaks on spelling, grammar and layout) version of an article I wrote in my senior year of high school for my Linear Algebra class.

The Easiest Way to Run LLMs Locally LLMs Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you already know what LLMs are.

Do Not Type Your Notes I feel it necessary to make it clear who I am speaking to.

Quantifying Hope on a Global Scale Hope is a somewhat nebulous word.

The Climate Change Progress Bar The Problem Over the last couple years, I’ve noticed a growing distinction between two groups of people.

A Case for Procrastination The most valuable, unique aspect of software development is the speed at which we can iterate.

How I Designed (and built) My Own Pen Plotter For the last few months, after reading Preslav Rachev’s book Generative Art in Go, I have been playing around with writing algorithms that create interesting graphics.

What Is Randomness?

Build a Wordle Solver Using Rust The Game Wordle is a relatively simple game.

Why Rust Might Attract More Developers Than Java and JavaScript Rust is undeniably a greatly appreciated language, after all, it has placed as “#1 Most Loved Programming Language” on the StackOverflow Developer Survey for 6th year running.

How to Write a Discord Bot in Rust Discord is an instant message platform with more than 150 million monthly active users.