I was an early adopter of Textpattern in 2004, and I still have sites running that use it. Back then it was early in my career, and I used Textpattern as the C

I was an early adopter of Textpattern in 2004, and I still have sites running that use it. Back then it was early in my career, and I used Textpattern as the CMS for a client’s site. I’ll never forget trying to explain Textile markup to the engineer who would be managing the site. To me Textile, like Markdown, was great as shorthand for HTML. Well, but this guy chuckled and shook his head and said it seemed like using MS-DOS for the web. And well, you know what, it kind of is. I like my text-based tools, but that perspective has stuck with me when considering and designing systems for others to use. I kept Textpattern to myself after that, and eventually hacked it to use Markdown. I don’t know if they’ve made that easier than it used to be, but if they have they ought to have done so years earlier. And then of course I switched to Pollen.