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Clint Rutkas

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

24.09.2025 00:34 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The workbench doodles :)

08.09.2025 00:06 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are awesome

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

Did you accidentally use powertoys to always on top it?

15.07.2025 03:26 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Which plugins?

11.07.2025 13:56 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder
09.07.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How

09.07.2025 03:36 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Is the issue what is linked below?

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

Cutting the line?

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

EOF would have been funnier

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

Enable the low level key hook and you can.

20.05.2025 04:29 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attempt to see if this can fix COMException 0xD0000701 in PowerToys Run when resuming from sleep by crutkas Β· Pull Request #39421 Β· microsoft/PowerToys Issue PowerToys Run occasionally shows an error dialog with COMException (0xD0000701) after the system resumes from sleep. The error occurs in the DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea function which is use...

Dev friends who use PowerToys! We need your help!

We have a potential fix for the PT Run COMException (0xD0000701) error at github.com/microsoft/Po... but we can't repro it ourselves.

Can folks test out the PR and see if the failure still occurs? πŸ™

Issue: github.com/microsoft/Po...

16.05.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hey @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social :)

16.05.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

in Windows, leverage feedback hub. /cc @jenmsft.bsky.social

14.05.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Release Release v0.91 Β· microsoft/PowerToys In the v0.91 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and automation. Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.91.0-x64.exe 190DD702...

PowerToys v0.91 is here with TONS of Command Palette fixes and performance gains!

New CmdPal features to call out: the activation shortcut can now use a low-level keyboard hook (i.e. Win+R or Win+Space) and you can now hide the system tray icon ❀️‍πŸ”₯❀️‍πŸ”₯❀️‍πŸ”₯

github.com/microsoft/Po...

14.05.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Depends what type of feedback it is

14.05.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hearts out. If I can help or be an ear, please reach out.

14.05.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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