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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · 16h

[New Module] Light Switch by Jaylyn-Barbee · Pull Request #41987 · 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...

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · 18h

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/...

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 — all while keeping the fo...

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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️ @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social · 6d

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!

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · 22d

I have one that ends with “while Clint ignores us” for this reason :)

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Sep 8

The workbench doodles :)

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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niels9001.bsky.social @niels9001.bsky.social · Aug 13

PowerToys 0.93 is out 🪟🚀! 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/...

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...

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 16

You are awesome

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 15

Did you accidentally use powertoys to always on top it?

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 11

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...

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 11

Which plugins?

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 9

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ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jul 9

How

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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️ @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

Release Release v0.92.1 · 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...

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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️ @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

Release Release v0.92 · 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...

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · Jun 21

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

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Christopher Nguyen @nguyen-dows.bsky.social · May 29

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...

Release 1.1.0 · 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...

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Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · May 27

Is the issue what is linked below?

Clint Rutkas @clintrutkas.bsky.social · May 20

Cutting the line?

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