I was gonna....

My version of tweeting my drafts.

I was gonna perform the consternation I feel between my desire to appear smart/cool for you in this newsletter and wanting to email you my unhinged thoughts after drinking my 4th cup of coffee with no breakfast. But instead you get this un-edited jumble or words. Here are my drafts, things I was planning to write about and include in future newsletters.

I was gonna write about learning D3

and how I finally learned a skill that I have been procrastinating learning for 3 years. This would’ve been the P.S. (postscript)

Nat "Slime Time" Alison @tesseralis

yeah I know D3 (datass driven development) 🍑

I was gonna write about Chat-GPT and Generative AI systems

and this would’ve been the subheader

chat-gpt write a subheader for my newsletter in the style of @mellogood

I was gonna use this series of links as a postscript

P.S. - IYKYK

P.P.S - jk, we don’t gate keep here: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu "Can't Help Myself"

P.P.P.S - okay one more

I was gonna use these Tweets as future postscripts

Nicole He @nicolehe

it’s bad to suddenly have an idea to code at 12:08 am

@marty @marty

dream setup

jurdle @jurndan

I would love to visit a website in person someday

rayne fisher-quann @raynefq

typing “I’m evil 😈” into google docs and then getting scared when I look at the screen

kim @KimmyMonte

football and soccer are like gimme the ball i want that ball but baseball is all like fuck this ball get rid of it i hate it

Elsewhere…

Inputs

“What makes videogame labor so exciting is the chance to fully enjoy a reward for your efforts. You put in what you get out of it, in a very direct sense. The most satisfying games are actually fantasy simulations of living out a basic Marxist value: labor is entitled to all it creates.”

• Depression and Videogames

“With jokes and recipes and turns of phrase, it can be impossible to separate things we created from things we absorbed, internalized, and re-accessed later.“

• These Recipes Aren’t Ours

“The threshold for design is care and consideration for problem solving, not formal steeping in impermanent design tools, not a slick BFA from RISD.”

• Can You Be A Designer If You Have No Training?

• DMs Open, a zine about winning remote organizing

• I don't like making the best things.

Outputs

• I added an interviews section to my website and will talk more about that later

• xptype - blink

• xptype - fade

-mello

P.S. - TBH, I’m writing this in response to the last story in the Inputs section

P.P.S - TB-really-Honest, I’m writing this as an excuse to send you a bunch of links