[scoofy]

Same story for me. I'd programmed in python for a while, but I first learned web development from Steve Huffman's little udacity course on how they built reddit (I know I say it every time I run into you at events, but thanks again for that Steve).

Anyway, I distinctly remember that that course was the first time I'd ever seen Monokai, and I immediately was obsessed with what that color scheme was, and that it was the most interesting color scheme I'd ever seen. I immediately downloaded Sublime Text and have been using it ever since. I know it shouldn't matter, but having a visually pleasing color scheme just takes the edge off when I'm on hour four of trying to solve some dumb bug.