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.
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5 Ways I Use Background Coding Agents Every Day
Coding agents are different from in-editor chat and agent modes for AI assisted programming. They run asynchronously—often in the cloud—tackling tasks while you focus locally. I rely heavily on the GitHub Copilot coding agent and its VS Code integration to spin up multiple parallel workflows. Below are five everyday patterns I use to offload work, speed up development, and keep my repos in top shape. 1. Assign Issues Directly to GitHub Copilot When a new issue or idea lands, I immediately han…
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Announcing Hotkey Typer — type long prompts with a hotkey
When I'm recording demos or making videos I often need to reproduce long prompts or blocks of text on-screen. Manually retyping them every time is slow and error-prone, and pasting from the clipboard can feel jerky and reveal private content. I wanted a tiny, reliable app that would let me press a global hotkey and have the application type a predefined, human-like block of text into whatever app currently has focus — perfect for demos, tutorials, and repeatable workflows. Enter Hotkey Typ…
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Visual Studio Code, your new Markdown editor
I feel like I have been spoiled for a long time using macOS as there have been a plethora of great Markdown editors. Now that I am full time on a Surface Book and Windows 10 it saddened me that a version of Mou [http://25.io/mou/]wasn’t coming or planned at all. I write Markdown just about every day between the libraries on my GitHub [http://github.com/jamesmontemagno] and writing blogs and documentation. I have always used VS Code [https://code.visualstudio.com/]for just light weight text editi…
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