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Lead for developer experiences on Windows. Windows Terminal, Microsoft PowerToys, Sudo on Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and more. Happy to help.

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29.01.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Super proud of what the community and team helped accomplish in this release!

20.01.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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[New Module] Light Switch by Jaylyn-Barbee Β· Pull Request #41987 Β· microsoft/PowerToys Summary of the Pull Request This pull request introduces a new module called "Light Switch" which allows users to automatically switch between light and dark mode on a timer. PR Checkli...

Jaylyn. github.com/microsoft/Po...

16.10.2025 01:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

look at the video in the blog post. querying now is v-fast :)

16.10.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar New month, new release! This one’s packed with quality-of-life improvements, performance boosts, and a bunch of long-standing community requests finally checked off the list β€” all while keeping the fo...

PowerToys 0.95 is live! You wanted CmdPal to be faster? Peek be invoked via the space bar? Windows to shift themes on Sunrise / sunset? we got you.

devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/...

15.10.2025 23:31 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey Windows Terminal fans! We've been playing around with Terminal Chat in the Canary builds and we'd love your feedback 😊

Have you tried Terminal Chat? Do you find having GitHub Copilot in a pane in Terminal useful? Are there other features you want to see here? Let us know!

10.10.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I have one that ends with β€œwhile Clint ignores us” for this reason :)

24.09.2025 00:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Terminal is one star shy of 100,000 on GitHub!!! github.com/microsoft/te...

Let’s breach the 100k for one of my favorite tools.

09.09.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The workbench doodles :)

08.09.2025 00:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But if you grew up knowing the brightness of a 60 watt bulb and you bought 60 watt or 75 watt, that became the defacto measure of brightness

01.09.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I get why lumen as the unit is better. But I need a table to go x == 75w bulb :)

31.08.2025 16:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Am I the only one that still has to think in watts vs lumens for light bulbs for brightness?

31.08.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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PowerToys 0.93 is here: faster Command Palette, new dashboard UX and more Discover what's new in PowerToys 0.93 – a redesigned Settings homepage, faster Command Palette, shortcut conflict detection, new Mouse Highlighter spotlight mode, and under-the-hood improvements for b...

PowerToys 0.93 is out πŸͺŸπŸš€! Faster Command Palette, refreshed Settings dashboard, new Mouse Highlighter spotlight mode, plus lots of fixes and improvements.

Check out the blog post here:
devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/...

13.08.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You are awesome

16.07.2025 05:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you accidentally use powertoys to always on top it?

15.07.2025 03:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d argue they aren’t too hard to port. We managed to port most pretty quickly

12.07.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Of the new PRs? I love all the hard work everyone is doing but Ahead of time compile which will let us trim / optimize the binary should really be amazing. I believe is the last needed set of the work to fully enable it. github.com/microsoft/Po...

11.07.2025 15:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Which plugins?

11.07.2025 13:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m very much enjoying the stream of improvements going into PowerToys Command Palette.

11.07.2025 04:05 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.07.2025 06:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How

09.07.2025 03:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Release Release v0.92.1 Β· microsoft/PowerToys This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.92 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.92.0 for full release notes. Installer Packages Description Filename Per user...

Fixed some regression issues in our latest release and the patch fix is out now! Go get the latest PowerToys v0.92.1 bits πŸ€—πŸ€— github.com/microsoft/Po...

07.07.2025 21:46 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Release Release v0.92 Β· microsoft/PowerToys In the v0.92 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, optimization improvements, and automation. Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSe...

PowerToys v0.92 is here with looooots of fixes and improvements! Go check it out! πŸš€
github.com/microsoft/Po...

01.07.2025 20:15 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Nope, I don’t want your native app for the 500th time. I just want to read the news.

21.06.2025 00:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Release 1.1.0 Β· microsoft/edit Welcome to our first servicing release! Thanks to your contributions, this release contains a large amount of bug fixes and welcome additions. Let us know if you like it in the linked discussion. I...

We just released our first servicing release for Edit! This release has several bug fixes and many amazing community contributions! Thank you all for the love and support! Learn more on our GitHub releases page!
github.com/microsoft/ed...

29.05.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Is the issue what is linked below?

27.05.2025 05:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cutting the line?

20.05.2025 22:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

EOF would have been funnier

20.05.2025 21:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Enable the low level key hook and you can.

20.05.2025 04:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Super fun to see what the team whipped up. WSL open source, edit (open source), windows advanced settings (open source), Terminal 1.23 (open source), powertoys with command palette (open source), …. Windows Dev ❀️

How can we help?

19.05.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0