Restore SwiftUI Menu Icons on macOS 27 with One Line
Missing icons in your macOS 27 menu? SwiftUI now hides most symbol images by default. Here's how Tiny Clips opts its dropdown back in with one scoped label-style modifier.
James Montemagno
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Introducing Tiny Clips Studio: Screen Recordings You Can Keep Editing
Record now. Choose the look afterward. Tiny Clips Studio keeps your screen and camera separate so you can change layouts, add zooms, and export without giving up the ability to edit again.
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More AI Agents, More CI: Reducing GitHub Actions Costs & Build Time
AI agents can create pull requests faster than ever. My cross-platform build matrix noticed. Here is how we followed the data, tested the optimizations, and separated real wins from optimistic estimates.
James Montemagno
Rebuilding 13 Years of Blog Posts as a Static Site with GitHub Copilot CLI
Ghost served me well for nine years, but I wanted my blog to be plain Markdown in a git repo. Here's how GitHub Copilot CLI helped me get the initial migration working in an afternoon, then polish and verify the site for launch.
James Montemagno
Introducing PDF Diff: Compare PDFs Privately in Your Browser
Hey friends! I'm super excited to share a new tool I've been working on that solves a problem I bet many of you have faced: how do you quickly compare two PDF documents to see what changed? Enter PDF Diff! Landing page for PDF Diff allowing you to upload 2 PDFs to compare Why I Built This Look, we've all been there. You get two versions of a contract, a proposal, or a license agreement, and you need to figure out …
James Montemagno
Introducing Oh My Posh Visual Configurator: Finally, a Drag-and-Drop Terminal Theme Builder! ✨
A web-based drag-and-drop builder for oh-my-posh that makes creating beautiful terminal prompts actually fun!
James Montemagno
Building a Complete FIRE Calculator App with GitHub Copilot in One Chat Session
In 30 minutes with GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and Claude Opus 4.5 I built my ultimate FIRE calculator app that is private, secure, and free!
James Montemagno
Building Better Apps with GitHub Copilot Custom Agents
Custom agents are here to customize and optimize how coding agents work on your code, here is my experiment with the WinForms agent.
James Montemagno
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James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for Developer Community at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
