Last chance before Christmas: your 15% off our store!
Hello everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that THIS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 18th is the last day to get merch in time for Christmas in the US, even though your 15% off discount (c...
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Dove
14 days ago
A Very Busy (but fully fulfilled 👈👈😎) Year 🎁🥂
Fujoshi, fudanshi, fujin, and friends,
We thought so long and hard about how to react to the US election that we reset our entire update schedule: from now on, you can expec...
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Essential Randomnesss
20 days ago
Introducing ✨ The FujoVerse Holiday Special ✨ (and your 15% off!)
It’s that time of year again, and for 2024 we’ve revamped our store to include items from the FujoCoded campaign, including t-shirts, tote bags, stickers, and more.
Just ...
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Essential Randomnesss
23 days ago
It's Here: Your Coupon Code Reward 🎟️🎟️🎟️
As promised in your campaign rewards, your 20% off coupon for our FujoCoded LLC FujoStore will soon be yours through BackerKit's digital delivery system (look out for a se...
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about 2 months ago
Sticking Around
Hello, backers!
It’s been a turbulent month for our core volunteers. One had to take a break for health reasons, one had to step back when things got crazy at work, and one has...
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2 months ago
It’s time to S-S-S-S SHIP!
Hello everyone,
It’s time! Our most time-consuming projects are winding down, our rewards are ready to mail, and our packing elves have assembled, which means it’s time to smash...
Just a friendly reminder that THIS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 18th is the last day to get merch in time for Christmas in the US, even though your 15% off discount (code FOLGERS_SEASON) will remain active until January 6th (the proper day to end winter holidays).
Order your holiday special in the next 24—maybe even 36—hours, and we'll get it ready in time!
Check out our yaoi (cheese) paddles, stickers, charms and more at store.fujocoded.com
Thank you as always for your support and happy holidays!
Fujoshi, fudanshi, fujin, and friends, We thought so long and hard about how to react to the US election that we reset our entire update schedule: from now on, you can expect these updates at the beginning of the month instead of the middle!
What we most want to say is that now more than ever, we believe in the importance of our mission: to empower fujoshi and other online countercultures to shape their respective corners of the web, to teach marginalized web users the tools of community organizing and technological rebellion, and to fuel the larger movement towards a free and decentralized internet.
No matter what the future throws at us over the next four years and beyond, the fight for a kinder, weirder internet must not stop. We’re glad you’re with us on this journey, and we hope you’ll commit during the upcoming holidays to stake a claim of your own on your online world, whether that’s making your own NeoCities fan page, learning to use a terminal, writing your first TamperMonkey script, volunteering with us, or pitching in with a different community project.
You have more power than you know 💛
FujoCoded, LLC: Company Credit
Nudging the Newsletter: As mentioned above, we’re sending this at the beginning of the month, rather than in the middle. This is because we’ve decided to shift our schedule going forward, which makes this the last newsletter of the year! From our team to all of you, happy holidays and thank you for your support throughout 2024 and beyond 🎇
A January Escapade: In January, we’re heading to Los Angeles to table and mingle at EscapadeCon! We’ll skip our usual in-depth newsletter that month, so the next time you get a normal newsletter will be the beginning of February. Come get your news in person at one of the oldest slash conventions out there (it’s been going since 1991!). You can buy tickets on their website—they even offer scholarships!
FujoSky: BlueSky offers a similar user experience to Twitter, but it also offers a bunch of fun customization opportunities under the hood. Come hang out with us on stream, we’re building AtProto-based tools to learn how it works. We’ve been making custom labelers:
That Ship Has Sailed: All physical BackerKit campaign rewards have officially been shipped! When you get your rewards, please consider posting them on social media and tagging us 😎 If you haven’t received a shipping notification yet, let us know at [email protected]!
*hacker voice* “You’re in”: 20% off store discount codes have been shipped to all our eligible BackerKit backers. Thanks for your support—hope you enjoy the stuff in the store you helped us finance!
Article Physics: One of our stretch goals was raising funds for an article on the Javascript package manager NPM. Here’s the progress we’ve made so far:
Our founder Ms Boba talked with NPM beginners to get a sense of the information they needed the most, then dumped all her observations into a single document with a draft of a potential outline. We’ve also recruited another volunteer to finalize this outline and prepare it for our future tech writer!
Long-time BobaBoard volunteer and core FujoCoded supporter enigmalea has been selected as the lead of the BobaBoard/FujoVerse Documentation Bubble. They’re putting together a team that (among other things) will:
Research license options for the articles we’re planning to commission
Work with our legal recruit (introduced in October) to finish drafting tech writer contracts for both BobaBoard and the rest of the FujoVerse projects
Draft work requirements for prospective tech writers
BobaBoard volunteer and FujoCoded supporter Dove has been selected as lead of the BobaBoard/FujoVerse Volunteering Bubble. She’s putting together a team that (among other things) will:
Finalize work requirements for prospective tech writers
Publicize our need for a tech writer and make job postings
(Article Physics con't): It’s been really great to watch more of the BobaBoard organization take shape in a way that will continue to empower the FujoVerse to get things done even after this specific campaign has wrapped.
What’s Next for the FujoCoded BackerKit
Blowing Bubbles: We’ll be using the coming month of December to have the first meetings of the Documentation and Volunteering bubbles (see above).
Cons & Contracts: While much of our focus in January will be on our con appearance at Escapade, our other focus will be collaborating with the Documentation bubble on wrapping up our own contract efforts and getting them approved by our lawyer.
Budge(t) up: With all the production and shipping complete, we can now accurately determine exactly how much money we have left to pay article writers.
It’s drafty in here: We’ll continue revising the draft outline of the NPM article based on the research our founder Ms Boba put together with the help of fannish NPM beginners. The clearer our draft is, the better our tech writer will do!
THE END IS NIGH: With the digital and physical rewards distributed, we’re well on our way toward wrapping up campaign fulfillment. All that’s missing are the articles and the legal contracts we need to get them done! 😌
Around the FujoVerse
Word on the street
Escaping to Escapade: We’re heading down to Los Angeles to table at EscapadeCon from January 31 to February 2. Escapade bills itself as a “slash slumber party” and has been a celebration of fujoshi, fudanshi, fujin, and friends since way back in 1991, which means it’s exactly the right crowd to introduce to the Fujoverse. Both our founder Ms Boba and our communications manager Dove will be there selling merch and preaching the good word about the Fujoshi Guide to Web Development, FujoCoded, and the rest of the FujoVerse.
A Folger’s Christmas: It’s time for the annual FujoVerse Holiday Special! You can use our discount code FOLGERS_SEASON for 15% off everything in the FujoCoded store. Brighten the holiday of your nearest and dearest fujin & friends with yaoi cheese boards, snarky stickers, or even an official Ownership Certificate of their favorite slash pairing!
More discounts?: Remember, if you backed our FujoCoded launch campaign at $15 or above, you should already have a unique coupon code in your inbox that gives you 20% off.
EVEN MORE discounts??: And if you become a sustaining monthly supporter on Patreon, you’ll receive a coupon for 25% off your order! Tiers start at just $3 per month, and every bit truly does add up to support our mission: building a kinder, weirder, more diverse, more collaborative internet.
Shipping deadlines: If you need to receive your order on or before Decmber 25, here are your target order dates:
United States: Wednesday, December 18th (USPS Ground Advantage)
Africa, Central America (including Mexico), and South America: Monday, December 2 (International Shipping)
Canada & all remaining countries: Monday, December 9 (International shipping)
No time to wait? Whether you gift a RobinBoob ship certificate to a friend or buy your own OTP to treat yourself, your recipient will receive it in their inbox right away!
You can help!
We’re putting together a group of volunteers to assist with revamping BobaBoard.com (the static home page for BobaBoard, not the social media platform called BobaBoard) and docs.bobaboard.com (the repository of articles about every different part of BobaBoard.) Here’s the kind of help we could use:
Nitpickers (for BobaBoard): Volunteers to give feedback on the BobaBoard home page, help us identify things that are outdated or confusing, catch typos, and find broken links. All you need to bring to the table is your opinion!
Astro coders (for BobaBoard): Know the Astro framework, or willing to learn? The revamp of these sites will involve moving from React-based frameworks (NextJS, Docusaurus) to Astro (and its documentation framework, Starlight)! This is a great chance to gain some relatively entry-level experience with one of our favorite technologies to build personal websites with and learn more about frameworks.
Copywriters, UI/UX folks, and/or web designers(for BobaBoard): After we move everything to Astro, we’ll need to rewrite, redesign, or rebuild the outdated parts of the home page. Whether you have decades of experience or just a hobbyist level of interest, we’d love to have you.
If you’d like to try any of these roles, or if you’d like to get involved in other ways, let us know via [email protected].
That's all, folks!
We hope you’re enjoying the annual holiday store discount, and we wish you all the best during this holiday season. May the winter-themed fanfic featuring your faves be plentiful!
Warmest wishes,
The FujoCoded Team
(a pile of festively wrapped boxes with holes poked in the tops)
It’s that time of year again, and for 2024 we’ve revamped our store to include items from the FujoCoded campaign, including t-shirts, tote bags, stickers, and more.
Just in time for the holiday special, earlier this week you received your backer reward from the campaign: a unique coupon code to take 20% off your order in the FujoStore! (Look for “New Digital Content for FujoCoded LLC: Software and education for a better web on BackerKit” from [email protected] if you haven’t seen it already!)
For an even deeper discount, become asustaining monthly supporter on Patreonto receive a coupon for 25% off your order! Tiers start at just $3 per month, and every bit truly does add up to support our mission: building a kinder, more diverse, more collaborative, and more weird internet.
Looking for the classics? The BobaBoard merch of Folgers Seasons past has moved into our FujoCoded store, too! From stickers to charms, from washi tape to emoji sets, there are plenty of Boba-tans to bring home for the holidays.
And of course there are the much beloved FujoBoards, which (especially when paired with your favorite snacks) are sure to be the star of any décor.
As a reminder, here are the holiday shipping deadlines to aim for if you need to receive your order on or before December 25th. (Contact us at [email protected] if you have questions or important deadlines!)
Monday, December 2nd - International - Africa & all of Latin America including Mexico
Monday, December 9th - International - Canada & the rest of the world
Wednesday, December 18th - USPS Ground Advantage - United States
No time to wait? Whether you gift a RobinBoob ship certificate to a friend or buy your own OTP to treat yourself, your recipient will receive it in their inbox right away!
Once again, we thank you for all of your encouragement and enthusiasm for our projects.
Wishing you the very best and the happiest of holidays, The FujoCoded LLC Team
P.S. If you would like to show off your FujoVerse merch, please do tag us on socials—we’d love to see how you decorated in a festive fujin way!
As promised in your campaign rewards, your 20% off coupon for our FujoCoded LLC FujoStore will soon be yours through BackerKit's digital delivery system (look out for a separate email)!
If you’d like to save your 20% off coupon for the new year (it won’t expire), be on the lookout for our holiday special discount later this week. On November 29th, we’ll announce a coupon for everyone to use to take 15% off FujoVerse projects, including the FujoStore, FujoBoard, and RobinBoob. If you want a deeper discount, you can subscribe to our Patreon NOW to get the $upporters $pecial 25% off code.
Thank you again for all of your support, and see you again this Friday! The FujoCoded LLC Team
P.S. We mailed out most of our rewards! If you purchased our Catboy Bath Water, you should have received a separate email about the timing. For everyone else, please let us know if you're expecting to receive physical rewards and haven't gotten a tracking number yet!
It’s been a turbulent month for our core volunteers. One had to take a break for health reasons, one had to step back when things got crazy at work, and one has had to stop work for two weeks and counting due to an unresolved internet outage. Yikes!
There’s no denying it slowed us down, but we know these kinds of personal setbacks come with the territory of having a small, volunteer-driven team, and we certainly didn’t let it stop us. We’ve got plenty of juicy updates for you this month 😉
FujoCoded, LLC: Company Credit
Ask And Ye Shall Receive: We got a great response to our request for volunteers! We’ve taken on two people to assist with video editing, and an experienced project manager to help us tackle task management. Work has already started, and we’re looking forward to sharing our progress with you in the following months. Still, we can always use some more help in these areas! If you’d like to join our new volunteers, reach out at [email protected]!
Taskmaster Torch-Passing 1: Our beloved task coordinator, Leedie, is taking some time off due to a busy time at her day job. We’re very grateful to Leedie for sticking it out through three major multi-part tasks: digital reward pack, digital zine preview, and backerkit reward shipping. With Leedie’s help, the team was able to coordinate work despite our highly decentralized and “slipping-work-in-the-cracks-of-dayjob” environment. We look forward to more adventures together when she’s free to return!
Taskmaster Torch-Passing 2: …and we were very very lucky to have a new volunteer come in to help us design a system that is less labor-intensive on the task coordinator side—we’re finally in the market for some dedicated task management software rather than relying on a hand-coded Google Sheet. Our new taskmaster took a hard look at our practices and made a great list of recommended improvements that we’ll work on implementing in the coming months.
Secret $upporter Store Section: As mentioned last month, our new intern Fox has been assigned to work on the delivery system for our $upporter perks. Our first perk-delivery method is to add a $upporters-only section to the FujoCoded store, where supporters can use a password to access exclusive items. The necessary coding tasks are all laid out, and Fox has been familiarizing herself with React and NextJS to prepare for the work! Hopefully her internet will be restored and allow her to dive in soon.
Recent Progress on our BackerKit Campaign
Signed, Sealed, Delivered—it’s yours: We sent out the Digital Goodies Pack! A couple of supporters alerted us that the goodies couldn’t be downloaded as a group due to how GDrive shortcuts work. We quickly added some pre-made zip files to address the issue, and everything seems to have been smooth sailing from there. We hope you enjoyed your rewards. If you haven’t seen them yet, take this chance to go check them out! The announcement is in your email box, but let us know if you need the link sent again…and what you think 🤔
Locked & Loaded: The “confirm your address” email went out last weekend, and now all your shipping addresses are locked in! If you believe there’s an error with your locked address, please let us know at [email protected] as soon as possible and we’ll do our best to catch your order before it goes out.
Pack dynamics: A friend of Ms Boba’s came to stay with her out here on the (way too) sunny West Coast. Given the trying economic times, said friend has opted to pay rent in packing assistance and much-needed moral support during scary indie horror games. The two of them have been hard at work this week making sticker packs. All the sticker-only reward shipments have been packed, with tracking numbers inputted into Backerkit and everything. You know what they say—friends ought to stick together!
What’s Next for the FujoCoded BackerKit
Dis-Countdown: The store discount system has been implemented and the discount codes themselves have been assembled, so all that remains is sending them out! You can expect to get them in your email sometime in the coming week.
Pack, pack, pack, pack it up: Packing sure is full of unforeseen perils! As she was getting the sticker shipments together, Ms Boba ran out of thank-you cards to include in the packages! Once these difficulties are resolved, packing will recommence, to be followed by shipping. Those of you expecting physical rewards will soon receive tracking numbers via email. Wish us luck wrangling BackerKit’s system🤞
Around the FujoVerse
Word on the street
FujoTube: Remember that talk our founder Ms Boba gave at CitrusCon? It’s now available for anyone to watch on the CitrusCon Youtube account. Multiple viewers said it restored their hope for the internet, and we’ve also had some great discussion of the content here on tumblr. If you want to help us spread the good word, you can find our talk release announcements on all major socials: Bluesky | Tumblr | Mastodon | Twitter
Seeing Skies of Blue: Appropos of Musk’s latest nonsense, we decided to fill in our social media grid all the way by getting a Bluesky account for FujoGuide. Now, as they say, "all skeet skeet, motherf****rs!"
Editorial Oversight: In the Fandom Coders discord server, the need for a high-quality all-purpose post editor that can be used across different fandom projects is a recurring subject. Many projects need a modern, next-gen editor that feels good to use, including not only BobaBoard but also future projects FujoCoded is considering. Our founder Ms Boba had thus already been having thoughts in this direction herself, and will be inviting any interested Fandom Coders folks to join her in discussing the broader question and tackling some of the practical aspects in the coming months!
Hang Out with FujoCoded Live on Twitch 💬✨
Once the digital preview of Vol. 0, Issue 1: Git is sent out, our founder Ms Boba will need to start replenishing her personal finances while continuing to build up FujoCoded LLC…and that means finding contract work. Her first step will be to tidy up her personal/professional website to showcase her work and skill—and what better time to do that than on a weekly stream? In early November, she’ll return to streaming twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. Her Thursday schedule is below, but you can double-check her streaming schedule page for information about potential Monday streams.
October
Thursday, October 24 @ 3pm PDT: Let’s explore the Astro Content Layer
Thursday, October 31 @ 3pm PDT: BobaBoard Stream - Connecting to Discord via API
November
Monday, November 4 @ 3pm PST: Let’s build MY Webs…Résumé!
Thursday, November 7 @ 3pm PST: A Fandom Editor Polish-Up
Monday, November 11 @ 3pm PST: Résumé Website BTS
Thursday, November 14 @ 3pm PST: A Fandom Editor Mystery Episode
Monday, November 18 @ 3pm PST: Résumé Website BTS
FujoStore Highlights
Charm Offensive: This month, we’re highlighting some of our pre-FujoCoded merchandise! Everything in the Charm section was designed and produced as BobaBoard merch and features BobaBoard’s (and now FujoGuide’s) mascot Boba-tan. These clear acrylic charms go great on a phone case, where they can remind you to relax and read some fanfic instead of getting into yet another argument with somebody who’s wrong on the internet. Or add one to your key ring, to give you some much-needed whimsy on your daily commute!
If you want to support our project and look cool doing it, make sure to grab one 😎
Since last month’s request for help went so well, we’re asking again! This month, we’re wondering (🥺) if anyone wants to help us do the following:
Draft or coordinate technical writing (for BobaBoard): Getting new coding volunteers up to speed is easier the better our documentation is. We’re forming a dedicated documentation bubble, and would love for people interested in or experienced with technical writing to join us. If you’ve been wondering how to get more technical writing into your professional portfolio, look no further!
Recruit volunteers (for BobaBoard): Ever done volunteer outreach or onboarding, even just for fandom events or hosting a party? We’re getting together a group of volunteers to brainstorm about volunteer outreach, onboarding, and management. Yes, this means we’re asking you to help onboard yourself! We’re meta like that.
Grow a Patreon audience (for FujoCoded): Bridging the gap between our BackerKit campaign funds and our projected future sales income from the Fujoshi Guide to Web Development and other consumer-facing projects requires cultivating a base of Patreon supporters beyond just people who know Ms Boba personally. We’d really love to consult with someone who has insight into Patreon best practices.
Make pixel art (on commission): Unfortunately, the artist who created the 88x31 pixel art badges in our digital reward pack won’t be available for the foreseeable future.This means we’re now putting out feelers for an interim pixel artist interested in our cause and willing to take paid commissions. If that sounds like you, or you’d be up for other types of commissions in the future, go ahead and fill out our artist info form (and tell your friends!)
If you’d like to try any of these roles, or if you’d like to get involved in other ways, let us know via [email protected].
Alright, that's the long and the short of it! Keep your eye on your inboxes, and we'll see you next month.
