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106.4K
Posts
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Following
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Account age
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2.5M views
I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.
We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from
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How I spent 1996:
My boss wandered into my office and said "Hey Dave, do you want to rewrite pinball for Windows NT?". I said "Hell ya" and got paid to write and play pinball for two months... while listening to Soundgarden. And kudos to the original designers for a classic!
1.9M views
One of my favorite Microsoft interview questions was:
"Why does a mirror invert the image horizontally but not vertically? Why are you backwards but not also upside down?"
1.1M views
The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8.
If you're not the type to pay for your software, you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation, and this was our first major "hack".
And yet, it wasn't a
📊 Post performance
948.3K
Avg views / post
8.9×
Reach vs followers
Jun 2010
On X since
🔥 Top post: I've been married 30 years. When we got married, we agreed that · 8.3M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.12 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 video · 9 image · 9 text.
Follower / following
1.2K×
Follows 88 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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Here's a topic list for my chat with Lex:
1:22 - First computer
7:00 - Dropping out of high school
14:41 - Joining Microsoft
16:53 - MS-DOS
20:05 - Windows 95
26:52 - The man behind Windows
31:48 - Debugging
37:05 - Task Manager
42:14 - 3…
The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8.
If you're not the type to pay for your software, you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation, and this was our first …
I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn gigabytes a day of bandwidth doing nothing at all...
It's amazing to think of the amount of work we put in at Microsoft to build a fast, responsive, and robust hierarchical file system explorer just so that everyone could put everything on their desktop.
And no, having an "Old Desktop Stuff…
My goodness, he's right! South Park never attacks the left.
Well, except for Barack Obama, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Moore, Rob Reiner, Alec Baldwin, Oprah Winfrey, Janet Reno, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Ga…
Full disclosure, I stole this my from father-in-law who told it to me as advice on my wedding day :-)
I'm so old I wrote that!
That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it wo…
I'm so old I worked on that dialog :-)
I'm an immigrant that wrote important parts of Windows. Hope you can still sleep...
There, I fixed it! If you're going to do Vista, do it all the. way, I figure...
My first machine with a TB of RAM... I'm ready to learn Python!
The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8.
If you're not the type to pay for your software, you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation, and this was our first …
I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn gigabytes a day of bandwidth doing nothing at all...
It's amazing to think of the amount of work we put in at Microsoft to build a fast, responsive, and robust hierarchical file system explorer just so that everyone could put everything on their desktop.
And no, having an "Old Desktop Stuff…
My goodness, he's right! South Park never attacks the left.
Well, except for Barack Obama, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Moore, Rob Reiner, Alec Baldwin, Oprah Winfrey, Janet Reno, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Ga…
Full disclosure, I stole this my from father-in-law who told it to me as advice on my wedding day :-)
I'm so old I wrote that!
That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it wo…
I'm so old I worked on that dialog :-)
I'm an immigrant that wrote important parts of Windows. Hope you can still sleep...
There, I fixed it! If you're going to do Vista, do it all the. way, I figure...
My first machine with a TB of RAM... I'm ready to learn Python!
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2010 — 16 years ago.
👁️Averages 948.3K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬33.23% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated98/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~8.9× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (16+ years old).
- 33.23% engagement — above the ~14.4% typical for a X account this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Hi! I'm Dave Plummer. You might remember me from such Windows components as Task Manager, Windows Pinball, Calc, ZIPFolders, Product Activation, etc. Cheers!
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