Dave Plummer

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12:16

2026-08-14

machinebrief.com

artificial-intelligence

Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down

Microsoft has removed Mico, the anthropomorphic assistant introduced less than a year ago as the face of Copilot Voice, and will repurpose the character for Learn Live, a voice-based study mode. The c…

16:25

2026-07-02

theguptalog.blogspot.com

developer-tools

Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features

Former Microsoft developer Dave Plummer created TinyRetroPad, a 2.5KB Notepad clone written in Assembly that mimics classic Notepad functionality without any AI features. The text editor is 100 times …

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