MILWAUKEE, WI - A local developer, Mark, has sat in his cubicle and programmed every day of his life since Sublime Text first came out almost 8 years ago.

“After every 5th time you save, a message pops up asking you to pay for Sublime,” Mark explained. You could see the wrinkles of terror crease in his face.



“It’s destroyed my marriage, my life, my fantasy football standings.” So Mark decided to do what no other developer has done before: actually pay for Sublime Text.

At $70, the software could very well be on of the most expensive things a developer ever buys, “I actually debated coding my own editor from scratch first, it would probably only take me a day or two.”

But soon after hitting that buy button, things began looking up for Mark. Now he wakes up every day with a smile on his face, and he even got a raise at work for his increased productivity.

Rock on, Mark, rock on.