John Gruber

Yeah.

And I'd more or less ruled out every other option for a CMS.

And I was like, I've got to, I got to build my own.

And then movable type was like close enough.

And it's like, Ooh.

And it's like, I know that if I built my own, it would take 10 times longer than I thought it would.

But that meant every single post that I wrote on Daring Fireball was written in HTML.

And I'd paste HTML into the field for the body of the article.

Within a year, I'd really gotten the shit to that.

I can imagine, yeah.

I just, you know, I knew it.

It wasn't the fact that I didn't know it.

It's that I didn't like writing it.

And so I'd had this series of scripts that was getting ever more complicated on my local machine where I could write in like a proto markdown and then turn it into HTML

at the end and then paste that into movable type.

But it turns out I do a lot of editing after I post, you know, so having transferring to HTML and then all subsequent edits have to be in HTML.

So I was like, I need to write something like this.

And then Dean Allen, who's no longer with us at Textism.com, came out with the thing called Textile on 2001, 2002, I don't know, summer before Markdown.

And I thought about using Textile and I didn't like it enough.

And one of Anil's colleagues at Six Apart, a guy named Brad Choate.