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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️
@kaylacinnamon.bsky.social
Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft, former PM for Windows Terminal, Microsoft PowerToys, Cascadia Code, and Windows developer experiences 👩‍💻✨
Super excited to share that I'm now a Senior Developer Advocate! I'll still be doing what I love at @Microsoft, which is sharing all of the latest developer goodness 💜
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
These are my minions 👾

(I'm vibe coding a website to keep track of all of my crafting projects)

((I have 3746 features I want to add so I'm kicking off GitHub Copilot cloud agents to help me out))

#vscode #githubcopilot
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Waiting for someone to float down in a bubble or fly over on a broom 🫧
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My kitten just ran across my keyboard and opened Terminal in Quake mode (Win + `)

I trained her well 🐾
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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!
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The little terminal that could 💖 so proud to be a part of this amazing community awarding Windows Terminal with 100K GitHub stars 🌟
September 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I know it’s early but my Halloween decor is already up 🐈‍⬛
September 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 is here! 🚀
Awesome new feature: you can now right-click and split a pane!

Windows Terminal stable has also been updated to version 1.23 🔥

Check out all the latest goodness in this blog post 👇
devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/...
Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 Release
We’re back with another Terminal release for you! This development cycle, we focused on overall quality of life improvements and bug fixes. We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.23...
devblogs.microsoft.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We are so back 😎
August 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This took me 5 months to make, please enjoy
July 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Reposted by Kayla Cinnamon ☕️
excited to have @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social with us this episode, talking about dev tools and her journey at Microsoft working on all the things you love!
🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 6: Dev Tools with Kayla Cinnamon. Have a listen:
Episode 6: Dev Tools with Kayla Cinnamon
Tamás and Joe talk to Kaya Cinnamon about tools for making developers...
share.transistor.fm
July 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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...
github.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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...
github.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by Kayla Cinnamon ☕️
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...
github.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Miss our talk at #MSBuild? The recording is up now!

@craigloewen.bsky.social, @larryosterman.github.io, and I show off everything new with PowerToys, WSL, Terminal, WinGet, and Windows!

youtu.be/Vq4XeVzCIi8
Boost your development productivity with Windows latest tools and tips | BRK226
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
youtu.be
May 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Missed my cats at #MSBuild so I brought them with me in VS Code ☺️ courtesy of the VS Code Pets extension by @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social!
May 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Kayla Cinnamon ☕️
We've released Sysmon for Linux with a Debian 11 fix and config update hashes!

Get the tools at sysinternals.com.

See what's new on the Sysinternals Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinte...
Sysinternals - Sysinternals
Library, learning resources, downloads, support, and community. Evaluate and find out how to install, deploy, and maintain Windows with Sysinternals utilities.
sysinternals.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We've got a patch out for PowerToys v0.91 fixing Quick Accent not launching and Command Palette launching as admin when it shouldn't :)
github.com/microsoft/Po...
Release Release v0.91.1 · microsoft/PowerToys
This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.91 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.91.0 for full release notes. Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash ...
github.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Did we mention Windows Advanced settings is open source? 😉 Specifically, the system component that provides the File Explorer + version control feature 🔥

If you want to see more features here, let us know on GitHub!

github.com/microsoft/wi...
GitHub - microsoft/WindowsAdvancedSettings
Contribute to microsoft/WindowsAdvancedSettings development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Kayla Cinnamon ☕️
Edit is a new command-line text editor that is coming to Windows! If you want to see the code (or test it yourself 👀), Edit is now open source!
Learn more about Edit in the Windows Command Line Blog!
devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/...
Edit is now open source
What is Edit? Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub! This CLI text editor will be available to pre...
devblogs.microsoft.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Reposted by Kayla Cinnamon ☕️
So proud to announce that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source!

blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever iss...
blogs.windows.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Windows Advanced settings is here! We restructured the For Developers page and added new features such as File Explorer with version control 🚀

Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥
May 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Come by the Windows Developer experiences booth at #MSBuild! We’d love to talk to you about your dev workflow!

We work on all things Terminal, WSL, PowerToys, WinGet, and of course Windows 💙
May 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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? 🙏

Issue: github.com/microsoft/Po...
Attempt to see if this can fix COMException 0xD0000701 in PowerToys Run when resuming from sleep by crutkas · Pull Request #39421 · 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...
github.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reposted by Kayla Cinnamon ☕️
Microsoft’s Command Palette is a powerful launcher for apps, search, and more. This latest PowerToy is designed for Windows developers and power users. Details here: www.theverge.com/news/668719/...
May 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM