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Author here, thanks for posting. I made a quick history page of the Monokai color scheme, as I regularly get questions where Monokai originated (I first made it for Textmate), what its name means or if Monokai Pro was made by the same person as the original Monokai color scheme (yes).

Hope I can link to this page in the future. If you have any more questions, I'm here!

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Very cool, thank you for Monokai! Big fan of your other stuff, too. As someone who owns one of those pink hoodies from your (now defunct?) shop, why did they say “Machine”? I kinda would have preferred one that said “Monokai”, lol.

Hah nice! I didn't want the apparel to be overly fanboy like, so the idea was to have a series of words / phrases that are associated with code, but not too obviously nerdy.

In the end I didn't like all the logistics hassle, so I quit the shop. Maybe again some time, who knows.

Congratulations on creating Monokai, it is absolutely beautiful.

Its one of those things that are so ingrained in the fabric of computing, that it is almost surprising to hear someone invented it.

Thank you, that's great to hear :)

I’ll buy the SublimeText version, but I mainly use CLion nowadays and I would definitely buy it again for that IDE. Are you working on other editors or IDE for this color scheme?

I'm exploring how I could make an official Jetbrains theme package at the moment. It's a different codebase again, and it has their own marketplace flow for plugins, so I have to dive into this a bit more.

As a JetBrains user, I second this. Would’ve bought it in a if there was a JetBrains theme. Would be a nice alternative to Dracula, which I’m using right now.

Why write in third person?

When writing this page, it felt more like a history wiki page than a personal blog to me.

I really like the writing and don't understand the criticism.

FWIW, I didn't read it as criticism; more like "Hmm, that's odd. I wonder why..."

It's confusing. I didn't know you were the same person and thought you had somehow profitted from the work of the original Monokai creator.

If you don't want to change to first person you should at least point out you are talking about yourself.

Maybe something like this:

"The Monokai journey began in 2006 with Wimer Hazenberg, a Dutch designer and developer (me)."

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