tinyretropad

Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer best known for creating Windows Task Manager, recently demonstrated a Notepad-like Windows application called TinyRetroPad that fits into roughly 2,686 bytes, and Windows Central used the project to argue that modern Windows software often ships far...

Dave Plummer, a former Microsoft engineer known for work on classic Windows components, has released TinyRetroPad, a 2.5KB Notepad-style text editor for Windows that deliberately rejects modern Notepad’s tabs, AI writing tools, telemetry concerns, and expanding feature set. It is not just a...