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Newsletter will be out in the next couple days! Putting on the finishing touches and also doing some @fujoweb.dev work because a) IT'S THE PRIORITY!!! b) I need to do something even remotely technical or i'll wither 😭
One hour to register!! 👇 (and ask questions? I think? maybe that's longer, but why risk it 😎)
Reminder: today is your LAST DAY to register for @citruscon.bsky.social & send in your fandom, web AND code question for our Q&AdLib*
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*Used to be Q&AdLib(ish), but... yeah....
Reminder: ✨ Free Registration✨ for @citruscon.bsky.social closes tomorrow!
Fun fact: due to a clerical error, the original description of our Q&Ad-lib read as "Fuck code around", further cementing our brand.
Make sure to ask us questions about the web, writing code, or... fucking it? Form below👇👇
Check out—and cheer with us 🎉—our latest Issue 2 progress and lessons (learned and given) on good technical writing 💪🥳
i did work more on fujoguide issue 2, i swear, but the cat ate my progress—
(taking care of some pre-existing obligation and then it's time to go heads down 💪)
An excerpt from the book: This Issue's Scenario: Boba-tan Escapes Disaster! The unthinkable has happened: caught in the crossfire of one of Git and GitHub’s classic skirmishes, Boba-tan’s laptop is now irreparably broken—and just as she was putting the final touches on her NAND Cypher web shrine! (NAND Cypher, charming antagonist of fan-favorite series Binary Calls, and eminent Funblr Sexyman.) Luckily, not all is lost: thanks to Git and GitHub’s combined powers, a slightly-outdated version of Boba-tan’s shrine has been safely uploaded to the cloud. Now it’s time for Boba-tan to download this lost code to Git’s laptop (requisitioned on Terminal’s orders as she waits for her new one), and finish celebrating her favorite fictional character.
For a book like this, "deliver on your promise as soon as humanly possible" means time from first word to cloning the repo and seeing the fun web shrine on your computer must be as short as possible. Plus, if the reader hasn't used GitHub at all, the explanation has nothing to really "latch on" yet.
Putting the Hub in Git You may be wondering: if there are multiple copies of my code, how does Git know which one is the “main copy”? Simple but surprising answer: Git has no concept of a single “main copy” of your code! Since each remote repository maintains its own copy of your various commits (change checkpoints), and since commits can be independently copied—or not copied!—between remotes, it may be sometimes be impossible to point to “the most up-to-date copy”. Since changes can be synced independently, each remote might end up having a unique subset of the full code. In the (chaotically maddening) above situation, no remote knows about all changes! While this flexibility allows for cool possibilities in theory, in practice it can make keeping track of changes confusing. So, to make things easier on the brains of poor developers, Git remotes are often used in a “hub” configuration.
When using Git in a hub configuration, a single remote is designated as the one that holds the canonical (or “official”) version of the code. In this setup, remotes send their changes to the central “hub” once they’re ready to be shared. This way, while some remotes may be temporarily out of date, they can always catch up by asking the remote in charge for all the latest changes. In a hub configuration (the most commonly used), a remote is elected as the official copy of the code. All other copies will then send their own changes to it, or download changes made by others. These days, the central hub for most projects is a Git-based web service like GitHub. GitHub and similar platforms store the code of countless projects—small and large!—in the cloud, making it easy to access them, share them, and even collaborate on them. By keeping the main copy of your own repositories on services like these, you ensure your code remains safe and easily accessible—ready to edit from wherever you wish, and share with whoever you wish!
Re-reading it *definitely* confirmed my suspicions. I had already started moving some of the setup from the book into our free learning platform (learn.fujoweb.dev), but there was more to do. One big culprit was spending too much time upfront explaining remotes and the "hub" model.
In the previous issue, we learned that Version Control Systems (like Git) help you track the history of changes made to your files. But that’s not where the power of Git ends! Distributed Version Control Systems—like, once again, Git—allow you to keep a copy of your files on multiple computers, and to synchronize your changes across all the copies.
My favorite book on writing non-fiction (www.usefulbooks.com/learn/forgo-...) stresses to "deliver on your promise as soon as humanly possible", i.e. "drop the reader in the middle of the action and get yourself out of their way".
I knew from feedback/gut feel that this issue did a poor job at it.
Progress report 🚨✨
Slowed down but not deterred by professional hazards* impacting my writing workflow—that is, sitting on the floor surrounded by paper—the first chunk of FujoGuide TODOS are now TODONE! 🎉
Thoughts below 👇
*I sat on an uncomfortable chair too long so now my lower back hates me
Boost those links ☝️ take our genuine gratefulness you for your support 🙏 follow our progress 🏁 and let's make this a super prolific 2026, and a most excellent guide to GitHub and beyond ✨💖
Speaking of which, you can help @essentialrandom.bsky.social keep her focus on what only she SHE do (shitpost yaoi coding zines into existence) by helping @bobaboard.bsky.social fill 2 important positions:
- Volunteer Coordinator: bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Admin Assistant: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Most importantly, writing this in public reinforces our commitment to make "putting an excellent guide in the hands of our backers" our #1 priority for 2026.
We're SO thankful for everyone's patience as we set up our other initiatives (like learn@ learn.fujoweb.dev), now it's guide guide guide!! 🎓📚
I definitely felt like this was a lot more confusing than the first issue (which is funny because I've at least used github a little bit before but not git) but that's due to the subject matter and not the writing. i don't want to say github is more complicated than git, it just had more possibilities of messing up (but thankfully it seems most of those mess ups are accounted for in text) The writing was amazing and amusing. Overall a very entertaining read. The “take a breather” tasks were actually really nice and properly spaced out, giving readers good places to stop. It also meant it was easy to pick up again even after a few days (or in my case a week cause work was a terror between me starting this and finishing it).
Overall thoughts: Actually really enjoyed going through this! I feel like I understand what's going on with everything outlined, for the most part. I did end up having to read some things multiple times before I got what they were saying -- to a certain extent this might be unavoidable, given there's a lot of terminology and a lot of it sounds pretty similar when you're not familiar with it, but making sure everything is as direct and concise as possible would probably be a good idea.
Our first beta feedback 👇 was very positive, but there's still a lot to improve—not to mention, a couple extra chapters of advanced challenges to write (like how to fork and contribute to other projects, mayhap? 👀)!
Writing this in public means even more direct feedback...and it's fun 💪✨
Let's Rewrite FujoGuide! Issue 2, beta #2 GitHub perches on the top left corner, ready to pounce upon Git, who is very cute and asleep as a catboy loaf at the bottom right corner. A purple git logo is tiled in the background. A checklist, with all items unchecked so far: Review Beta #1 feedback Review Beta #1 flow Finalize new flow Reorganize intro chapter Plan extra chapters
[✨🚨 New Event Alert 🚨✨] Follow along as we liveblog our rewrite of FujoGuide Volume 0 Issue 2 and prepare it for its second beta!
For the next [as long as it takes], we'll be keeping you up-to-date on our progress, so you can keep us accountable for it 💖🙏
Tell your friends! Tell your servers!! Tell your.... blorbos?
You know what, fine—engagement bait time: would your blorbo make for a good Administrative Assistant? Would they join our sister organization, rallying fans together for a better web? Would they be our angle... or our devil?
After a long break, it is time (again): jump on in for a look back at one of our older plugins that loads AO3 data on an Astro website!
Let's update it and look at the README 👀 one of our community members generously contributed 💖
On streamplace 👇 & Twitch 👉 www.twitch.tv/essentialran... ]
[New Week! 📅 New Search! 🔍]
If you haven't checked out our call for a Volunteer Coordinator, or haven't ✨forwarded it✨ to your friends, discord servers, and secret blorbo thirstclubs 👀💦...
...find our form and apply here 👇✨
forms.gle/evUr3VXMV1ba...
What better Saturday afternoon than recycling our Friday m—I mean, helping the independent fandom web thrive?
Fill out—or share!—our Volunteer Coordinator application (forms.gle/evUr3VXMV1ba...) 👈 and help fujos, furries, and other fans build a better web for their communities.
Tired of the web falling apart while everyone's stuck in endless discourse? Been part of an org hitting growing-org pains and thought "I could fix her—if people *cared* and *listened*"?
BobaBoard is seeking a Volunteer Coordinator to rally fans and get 'em building 🧵👇
forms.gle/evUr3VXMV1ba...
tl;dr:
- 🔍 We need: a volunteer coordinator to build accountability systems to help fans actually ship
- 🧑🔬 Who has: experience herding folks toward shared goals—formally or through zines, forums, modding, burlesque, J-fashion tea parties, LARP, DIY shows...
- 🏁 Your task: forms.gle/evUr3VXMV1ba...
If you, like us, believe in the power of building our own future; if you, like us, believe it's possible—not easy—to come together to fix our communities; if you want to join a group of stubborn peers dedicated to helping fans *ship*, in more ways than one—
Heed our call:
forms.gle/evUr3VXMV1ba...
Help us spread the word and let's find @bobaboard.bsky.social a Volunteers Coordinator! 👀🙏
This is The Position We Need™ that unlocks everything else. Help our sibling org level up—like every org should—from "passionate chaos" to "passionate ORGANIZED chaos."
Feeling that post-Christmas cheer? Want "new year, new internet"?
Help us find the right person(s) to get fandom sitting down and working together to build a better fandom web! 🌐🦝🦝🦝🙏
Share our hiring call 👇 on your Discord, your group chats, everywhere 🙏
...and if YOU'RE that person, ✨apply!✨
Now for @fujoweb.dev. Speaking openly: Issue 2 hit snags (@essentialrandom.bsky.social's DoS-ed teaching energy + a collaborator stepping back), but we've regrouped and are making it our TOP 2026 PRIORITY.
Ongoing: draft tightening, spinning off FREE learn@ content, and recruiting a betas wrangler!
It's (finally... at last...) time! FujoCoded's last newsletter of 2025 is here! 🎉
Catch up on with all we've been up to (digital items, technical articles, so many libraries..) and where we'll be going (fujoguide 2 beta & beyond).Plus... super exciting hiring news!
fujocoded.com/updates/25-1...
An "old-timey" looking ad featuring the notorious Folgers "Home for the Holidays" Commercial siblings, now with a laser-engraved Yaoi Fujoboard resting on the lap of the sister, who gazes at her brother in adoration. Across the top, as if wrapped in a red ribbon like a present, is the script text, "Holidays taste better with your Fujoboard" with a dotted green outline. Boba-tan licks her lips in the Fujoboard logo, in anticipation of shipping fodder and charcuterie. Another cheeseboard is displayed in the corner, this one a new style, engraved with the word "fujin" across its center. The ad copy reads, "This year, give the gift that makes every Holiday a big hit! Whether friend, family, lover, or your own unique blend, Fujoboard will make your Special One merry! Top it off with Gruyere... Gouda... Brie... or with a tasty medley of their favorite salami! When it comes to gifts, nothing says 'I love you' like Fujoboard!"
Screenshot of the FujoCoded store, showcasing the Featured Products: chibi yaoi cheese paddle, seme/uke reversible hime cheese paddle, Shipping on Company Time sticker, fujin sticker, and slogan sticker set.
Reminder: TOMORROW, THURSDAY DECEMBER 18th is the last day to ship mail in time for Christmas (US only). Order your holiday paddle NOW, and we'll get it on its way in time!
Check out our exclusive yaoi (cheese) paddles, stickers, charms and more at store.fujocoded.com
A compilation of various wallpapers for the project, on various devices and screen sizes. They include: * Boba-tan fleeing with cookies in hand against a background of fortune cookies * A huge pile of fortune cookies and fortune scrolls against a repeated pattern of Boba-tan and small fortune cookies. * A red "Fandom Cookies" banner with fortune cookies on either side of the text, one of which Boba-tan is sitting on. The stamp above it says "Raccoon Express, Fujin Kitchen" and below the text it says "Kinda Vanilla", "Chocolate Doves", and "Lemony Prompts" * A repeated pattern of the Raccoon Express stamp in various sizes * Boba-tan holding a fortune cookie to her mouth in front of repeated banners alternating between fortune cookies, the words "fandom cookies", and the flavour list.
A credits page. Art credits as follows: Raccoon Creature and Cookie Eater - Hyena Cookie-xplosion, Cookie Run(away), Boba Prophet, and art direction - ymkse Cookie Get! - Fluffyburns Programming credits as follows: General Coding - Ms Boba and Riazaia CSS & Design - CatBathingSun Extra credits as follows: Alt Text - Elendraug, Big Naturals, Jaffa6 Extra Hands (and Brains) - enigmalea, Yuu, Secret Final Boss General Support - Our FujoVerse™ Friends
[Wallpapers Dream Team ✨🖼️✨]
Hailing all the way from our OG 🥠 Real Cookies™ 🥠 drop, the amazing artists that lent their flair to our site can now do the same for YOUR screens too! 📱
🎨 Meet (and admire the work of):
- @ymkse.bsky.social
- @chyenhyen.bsky.social
- @fluffyburns.bsky.social
A bar chart showing the number of items sold, with a grinning Boba-tan holding a glowing parcel aloft . There is a total of 125, with two peaks in April and a larger number of smaller peaks in November/December. The largest peaks are for 59 sales in April and 55 in november and the smaller peaks range from 1-5 sales.
But first, numbers:
Between the pre-order campaign and the April 1st giveaway, we've put our digital pack in the hands of OVER 120 OF YOU! 😮
This is—to put it the best way one can—"such woah." We're flattered and humbled by the reception of this experiment. ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝✨
TYSM!! 💖💕😭
A promo image saying "build your own fortune generator site with our learn-along, showcasing the logo of HTML/CSS/JS and "as seen on the web" $12.99 stamp
A screencap of the Fortune Cookie learn along. A white and grey circuit-board background, with a cream block in the center. Within the cream block is an image mimicking a webpage, with a yellow border, red columns on each side, and a cream background. Boba-tan, with a fortune cookie moustache, stands in the top middle. Below is a white text box with red border, saying "seek a fortune if you dare", and options for vanilla, chocolate, or lemon cookie flavors. White text with black outline reads: "Learn along as we build a fortune generator-- select a flavor, push a button, get a fortune!" Text below that outlines what is included: a centered single column layout; visual and practical interactions; pages, texts, and images where you want them, at any size, and more! Features are listed on the top right, with black text on a white text box outlined in black. Inside a black text field with white text, at the bottom right, there are more detailed features listed. These feature boxes highlight the approachable nature of the learn along, professional knowledge included, and customizable nature of the product.
It's time: With the Official Weekend of Shopping™ behind us, let's send off our 🎉 Launch Event 🎉 our favorite way: by honoring those who brought you hours of entertainment, and—of course!—our Fandom Cookies Digital Pack.
(launch price until done honoring! 🤫)
store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...