James Montemagno

Hey friends!

If you've ever spent way too much time digging through JSON files trying to get your terminal prompt just right, this post is for you.

I've been diving deep into financial independence planning lately, and as a developer, I naturally wanted a tool that does exactly what I need—without the clutter, ads, or privacy concerns of existing calculators out there.

When building Hotkey Typer, a Windows Forms app that types predefined snippets via hotkey, I discovered the power of GitHub Copilot's new custom agents feature.

Coding agents are different from in-editor chat and agent modes for AI assisted programming.

When I'm recording demos or making videos I often need to reproduce long prompts or blocks of text on-screen.

Are you tired of managing bingo games with paper cards and manual tracking?

I am by no means a cloud-native developer, I am a client developer.

Everything is building great in your CI/CD pipeline and then BOOM your build fails for no reason.

I have gone all in on Arm devices!

One of my favorite applications that I use for automation is If This Then That aka IFTTT.

You know I love talking about in app purchases and subscriptions.

.NET MAUI is right around the corner and Preview 13 is out right now!

Over the years I have created several apps that I am super proud of, and for the most part, I have always put them out for free onto the app stores.

Android Emulators have been a pain in everyone's side for pretty much ever.