Assembly language, arcade games, YouTube: former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer

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79 points·samizdis··5 comments

If you missed it, his three part series on YouTube called "The Secret History of Windows Task Manager" [0] was an absolute pleasure. Additionally, he's still finding his footing on YouTube and is very responsive to feedback and is active in the comments.

[0] https://youtu.be/f8VBOiPV-_M

I'm really happy to see Dave getting some attention. The stuff he's worked on was and continues to be fascinating. He did a Reddit AMA with lots of interesting stories from his career a few weeks ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plum...

> Nowadays Plummer does not have to dip his toes into the waters of x86 assembly. Having enjoyed Pascal in school, he "rediscovered much of the same 'elegance and cleanliness' in C#."

I can definitely relate to that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_5syuWUh0

Is the story straight out of the horse's mouth. What you miss from reading transcripts of interviews/reddit comments is that this guy has got a great sense of humor. He obviously reads from cues on his Mac (oh the irony, winkwink) but the storytelling/delivery is not far from stand-up comedy.

An interesting related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875

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