Did you know there's only 36 hours left* to preorder FujoCoded's latest April's Fools project, AskFujo?! That's like, LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

Which means you still have time to check out all the cool stretch goals we've unlocked so far, help us unlock new ones, get your copy of AskFujo and…earn your clicking degree (and website badge? 👀) from Fujo University!

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And AskFujo is…?

You know that feeling when a question that you're just dying to answer lights up your Tumblr inbox? Well, we put that in a box—a real, physical (or digital) box.

• Browserland Expansion: 36 brand new questions about fanworks, ships & the web!
• Localhost Expansion: 36 brand new questions about Blorbos, IRL and your hottest, spiciest takes!

Gimme all the deets!

• The Physical: An actual literal box containing actual literal cards (they feel super nice in the hand, admittedly), as well as any other fun knickknacks you pick up on the store! (Who KNOWS what might be unlocked by the time you get there?).
• The Digital: For the DIYer you keep in your heart! Or those of you who don't want to deal with shipping costs and tracking stuff. You will get "print it yourself" files of all your chosen products.

And there's more to come!

But it's not over yet!

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🌸✨ A FRIENDLY NOTE ✨🌸This edition was written by Ms Boba herself, without much chance for others to stop her help review and revise. Please enjoy her typos, writing quirks, excessive parentheticals (and occasional digressions (and nested asides)).

FujoCoded General News [Omakase]

• Juicy Con-centrate: On March 1st, we (once again) haunted the virtual halls of CitrusCon—not with a talk, but with a “Q&Ad-lib”, an innovative panel format where Ms Boba attempts to prepare in advance, fails, and is then forced to improvise live. Luckily, she's good at that...or was she? Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for the recording to find out. In the meantime, you can catch up by rewatching her 2024 talk “Rebuilding Community on the FujoWeb” and her 2025 talk “Working Together in a Dying World”.

• Get-ProjectManager’d: Thanks to last newsletter's plea, we have an official Project Manager! While not exactly a fujin (yet?), James is a wise, older, non-binary eldritch horror of knowledge who has been helping fan communities since 1995...and now helps us. Other than guiding the transition from Ms Boba's planet-sized charts to actual GitHub issues, and wrangling our raccoons collaborators in her stead, James has introduced us to Posh-chan, Microsoft's official PowerShell gijinka and absolute BombShell of a... shell. Now that is culture fit!

FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Recent

• Coding in Space(s): There's a new article at the event horizon! Sel and Grubdog joined forces to (space)ship learn@ readers straight into a full development environment by teaching them about GitHub Codespaces. Want to Halo jump into coding your site or contributing to one of our projects without first installing a bunch of stuff? Steal compute from Leverage Microsoft's generous (free) offerings and get a full computer in your browser—Catboys, alas, not included.

• One (S)hell of a Breakup: Last you heard from us, we were splitting up NPM articles to (allegedly) improve their readability. Having acquired a taste for dramatic breakups—in, you know, true fujo spirit—we've proceeded to tear more articles apart: "What is a Terminal?" and "Choosing your Terminal" have, alas(?), separated, and we've also thrown the absolutely-not-quick Terminal series out of "quickstarts". "HTML & CSS: Editing Basics", now alone, claims it's nice to have the section all for themselves, but we know denial and mutual pining when we see it.

• Spec-tacularly Written: Speaking of moving out on your own, our community is stepping up to help us create the learn@ we all wish to see on the web. But this very appreciated collaboration, while "just as planned hoped", adds the extra challenge of *deep breath* creating a cohesive creative vision across a variety of creatives. To (style) guide us, Rie has updated—and even PR'd!—our community@'s learn@ writing specs. Incidentally, we've also discovered the Diataxis framework, which has helped us all get on the same (web)page not just about the how but the what we're writing. Wish us luck sweat, but eventual success!

• License to Learn: Nothing like having to make legal decisions reminds you the ol' 9 to 5 still has its perks. Thankfully, rather than giving into despair and dusting off our resumes, we put on our bravest attitude, faced our fears, and worked out a dual-licensing model for learn@ articles. In a few words: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial for the public (so everyone can copy and remix our articles—but not sell them), and a more permissive license for FujoCoded (so we can write our paid Zines and coding offerings without legal anxieties). You'll hear more about this in future newsletters: the legal ducks are, after all, ever waddling 🦆🦆🦆

FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Future

• Nearly Viable Manuscript: Now that we're in the future (section), you may wonder where our article on installing NVM is at. TL;DR(eview): Submerged in an avalanche of "//TODO"s, we left the most complete article for last...then found it needed just a bit more style-guide polish to fit with its peers. While we didn't have time to give it, there's no need to despair: we're currently pushing and pulling pronouns, tenses, bulletpoints, and assorted Starlight components, and will publish this excellent article as soon as we've bestowed it the appropriate ~learn@ vibe~.

• Taken for (April) Fools: We have so many great things cooking, and they all deserve their time and space to simmer! Between polishing articles, our ongoing FujoGuide rewrite, and FujoCoded's LLC #1 Company Holiday slash Prime Immovable Deadline™—that is, our April 1st fun(d)raiser—we'll keep Learn@ work going in the background so it can properly absorb all those creative juices.

Intermission — A Word to our $ponsors

Around the FujoVerse

In the Git(hub)

• Welcome to the GitHub: A warm shoutout to the newest first-time contributors to our GitHub—and for some GitHub itself: Ev, Hyena (✨first ever!✨), deepspaceaxolotl (✨first ever!✨), and Rie (✨first ever!✨)! Whether with a PR, a review, or a README, their generous contribution keeps us going and (not going to lie) makes us shed little tears of gratitude. Thank you for making the FujoVerse a little bit shinier ✨

• Astro-nomical Fanfic Data: Scraping AO3 data is fun, but you know what's even more fun (and simple)? Using AO3 data in your Astro webiste with our Astro AO3 loader plugin! This plugin's first official release now works with Astro 5, and supports series in addition to works. Plus, Ev (our valiant hero) gave it a proper README! So go forth now, load fics on your Astro site, and call it "learning webdev"...cause it totally is!

• AO3.js goes Adult: Our AO3 scraping library/Official "Fan Bait" Project™ got a bunch of upgrades: we've added support for adult works (we see you 😎) and listing tag synonyms (for internal purposes Certified Shady® 🥷), exported Zod schemas for ease of integration (e.g. our Astro loader plugin 👀👆), and overhauled error handling. Check out the release notes for the full changelog.

• Official Rec-list: Last but not least: @fujocoded/authproto, our ATProto authentication library for Astro sites, is now recommended in the official ATProto documentation. Look, fandom! Senpai noticed us. No pressure.

FujoStore Highlights: Restocks, Sales, and Limited-Time Offers

Collaborate with Us!

• [🙏]One Peer to Herd Them All: We're not quite ready yet (the draft needs a few more weeks), but we'll soon be looking for a volunteer beta readers coordinator to help wrangle FujoGuide Issue 2 Beta 2. The gig: sit in a Discord group DM with 6-7 fannish beginners as they brave our GitHub zine, and help them surface unscathed. You don't need deep GitHub expertise —just enough familiarity to get beginners unstuck. If this sounds like your thing, reach out NOW so we can hit the ground running when it's time. DM us or write us at [email protected]!

• [💰]Social Media Campaign Lead & Copywriter: Are you a fandom person (or adjacent) with a penchant for capturing the hearts (and eyes) of your fellow netizens? We're looking for a paid contractor to plan/write social media launch campaigns for our projects and products—think Bluesky threads, cross-platform posts, and short newsletter blurbs. You'll own the campaign timelines, wrangle the content delivery, and work directly with our founder to help us sound like ourselves...just uncharacteristically on schedule. This is a per-campaign role ($150–250/campaign), and we welcome experience from non-traditional avenues: fandom, zine promo, indie launches, crowdfunding, or anywhere you've had to get people excited and rallying. Apply here!

That’s All, Folks!

15% off your Timeless Ship 💌 + 🍋 CitrusCon Q&A now Open

Meet us @ CitrusCon — Send in your Q&A

This Sunday, March 1st 2026, we’ll be (once again) haunting the virtual halls of CitrusCon—not with a talk, but with a “Q&Ad-lib”, an innovative panel format where Ms Boba attempts to prepare in advance, runs out of time, and is then forced to improvise live. Luckily, she’s good at that! …or is she?

If you want to help her—or, you know, the opposite—send in your questions here. We’ll be focusing on the future of the fandom web and how we can build it together.

✨ FREE ✨ Registration closes Thursday, February 26th 2026, so be sure to grab your tickets now!


And with this...

Valentine's Day Promo: Time-Crossed Lovers Edition

Rejoice, Shippers! Come hither and feast your eyes on the new, improved RobinBoob, featuring a week-long, 15%-off-all-ships Valentine's Day bonanza.

Now, some naysayers might cry: "but how can you have a Valentine's promo, when February 14th was more than a week ago?" Irrelevant! What is time to real love? And what are other powerful, terrifying forces like, you know, launch deadlines?

So whether you're a budding investor claiming exclusive ownership of your special rarepair for the first time, or a seasoned trader saving yet another timeless couple from fans who "don't get them like you do", head forth to RobinBoob.com and use code LOVE_IS_TIMELESS to kickstart your very own VC (Valentine Certificates) fund.


And now, the weather updates:

• In Top Shipshape: What better way to spend New Year holidays than to revisit one of our most beloved moneymakers April 1st jokes? RobinBoob came out the other side of 2025 with a serious "new year, new me": we added PayPal (our longest-standing request), braved database optimization so searches aren't painfully slow, and snuck in a handful of quality-of-life improvements ready for you to discover on your own. The short version: everything's faster, smoother, more featureful—and, of course, ready to take your hard-earned money in exchange for meaningless JPEGs (...or are they?).
• Certified Gift-Giver: In true Valentine's spirit, you can now officially gift ship certificates to other people. No more putting in your bestie's email at checkout and hoping Stripe won't forward your credit card details (it wouldn't): we've built a proper gifting flow, complete with a notification email and personal note, so your giftees will always know you're thinking of them thinking of fictional characters smashing. If you haven't sent a proper Valentine's yet, this makes the perfect gift for your partner, your best friend, or even just yourself. Already sent one? Well, you know what we think: time means nothing when you're sharing some love.
• Return of the Ship-Watchers: Remember when the RobinBoob Twitter account used to post every ship purchase, uniting us in celebration of each other's excellent taste, or (for some), in the pleasure of inflicting our questionable palate upon others? Unfortunately, having fallen to "imperscrutable business acumen", that tradition was lost...until now: starting today, Ship-watching is back on all our store socials (tumblr, mastodon, and bluesky) except Twitter. Subscribe, spectate, and judge celebrate accordingly—and obviously, buy some ships to add to the feed.

FujoCoded General Company News [Omakase]

• Cookies Complete: The Fandom Cookies digital pack is out at last: head to our store right now to learn to build your own fortune generator website! This pack includes a ton of content, featuring a full set of wallpapers and digital goodies from fannish artists, alongside our HTML/CSS/JavaScript learn-along “with heavily commented code for beginners stepping up”. And if you buy it now, you’ll also get a discount for the ✨fancy edition✨ (for future release), which builds upon the regular pack to help you master ~even fancier~, more advanced CSS, JS, and HTML techniques.

• Cleaning Up Our Mart: With the digital pack buyers at our doors, we carved up the time—and adrenaline—to tidy up the FujoCoded store. In record time, we’ve added a ton of missing stuff like card backgrounds that help stickers pop, on-click image magnification (so you can see what you’re buying), and even made it much, much faster to load! While these changes improve our store for everyday visitors, they've long been in our to-do list for the launch of FujoGuide Issue 1—that table of contents would be hard to read otherwise👇👀

FujoCoded Backerkit Update

FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Recent

• Workshopping Writers: Our friend and article writer Rie took our existing learn@ style guide into their own hands (and wisdom). After giving our existing guidelines a very-needed coat of polish and clarity, they used their experience to concoct a better article writing AND review process—all this so we can spread our (free) knowledge faster and more sustainably! If that was not enough, they’re now test-driving this same process, guiding a kind volunteer in reviewing the Terminal series you funded (🙏) and upgrading it to fit our latest guidelines.
• Amicable Divorce: Ms Boba’s been breaking up marriages again, this time splitting up our NPM articles into more focused and approachable (not to mention less scary) chunks. Hand-on exercises—like Running NodeJS programs and Learn and Practice NPM—are now cozily settled in their single-occupancy home(page)s, so you can head directly to your preferred learning avenue, or more easily link your friends to the exact skills they seek.
• Shoot for the Stars: Behold the outline of our Astro learning path! As the last newsletter foretold, the collective hive-mind gathered forth in our Astro stream to ponder the missing pieces in the existing Astro docs. The verdict? While they’re excellent for people starting a website from scratch, Astro's docs lack guidance for those wishing to upgrade their handcrafted sites—a significant portion of our own target audience! We have, alas, not yet placed this “jump on the Astro rocket without leaving your site behind” series in our schedule, but we’re eager to start as our current articles (and other assorted obligations) wind down.

FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Future

• NVM Extras: We’ve had your first batch of NPM articles, yes, but what about a second batch? In the very first partnership of its kind, the BobaBoard Docs Bubble—aka, sociocratic circle—collectively drafted an installation guide for NVM—aka, Node Version Manager—which is our recommended avenue of getting access to NodeJS—aka, JavaScript but outside the Browser. Next up, we’ll add this guide to learn@ to help people install NodeJS the proper way by not installing it. A huge thank you to “The Docs”, our doc-torly bunch who all prefer the cover of anonymity, for their much better write-up on this complicated relationship!
• Governance and You: With community@ up and ready, we can start filling it up with some currently-internal guides on Sociocracy, the collective governance system FujoVerse™ projects are working to adopt and evangelize. This “working in communities” learning area is also where the “Dealing with Interpersonal Conflict” article this campaign funded will live… as soon as we’ve set up our existing writing commitments up for success, and we’re ready to tackle more writing—in both quantity and ambition.

Intermission — A Word to our $ponsors

Around the FujoVerse [Omakase]

In the Git(hub)

• Autorelease of Our Own: As the FujoVerse™ grows, so must our ability to keep up with its pace—which means we’ve started adding autorelease to our libraries! This process automatically keeps track of code changes, builds a list of new features, and lets us quickly release new versions into the wild. You can witness our first such release on @fujocoded/ao3.js (formerly @bobaboard/ao3.js). Among the latest features: tag search, fetching work content, non-AO3 archives support, and download URLs!
• Astrolabe’s Blasting Off (Again): Long-time friends may remember Astrolabe, the “universal rich text editor for multi-platform content” we’ve been chipping away at since, well…almost our origins! Now, with our ATproto connections bemoaning the need for something Astrolabe-shaped, we’re once again set on making “fetch” happen: Ms Boba has been slowly publishing her private plugins while polishing the Astrolabe repo (check out the new README and latest Storybook), upgrading libraries to the latest version, and experimenting with loading posts from other socials (like Leaflet) or decentralized ATproto emoji. Alongside her, fellow BobaBoard Builders Bubble member Sel has been working on making Spoilers accessible to screen readers as he familiarizes himself with the codebase. Want to join ‘em? Read on 👀👇

• Join the Cult: What’s better than us adding new functionality to our open source projects? Helping you—yes you!—do the same! The BobaBoard Builders Bubble recently banded together to open contributor-friendly issues for both AO3.js and Astrolabe, so people like you—yes you!—can come show (or learn) how it’s done! So look around, swing by, throw some code at the wall, and come ask for help if lost! These’ll look great on your resume, portfolio, and Hinge profile, we swear.
• A Plethora of Plugins: While the aforementioned autorelease will (eventually) help communicate our changes in an efficient and orderly manner, we unfortunately aren’t quite there yet, so…here’s a quick roundup of updates *deep breath*: haetae has been working doubletime to add README and examples to authproto, we’ve been prototyping friends-only Astro page functionality, cross-posting to Bluesky from your very own blog, and fetching your latest social contacts from your own PDS; we’ve also been pumping our Guestbook full of moderation goodness, like blocking users, hiding submissions, and deleting guestbooks! At this stage, it is almost ready for launch, awaiting a final deliberation on text formatting while our sysadmin Kat sets it up to run on our server); and we’d be remiss not to mention tools built for our own use, like syncing our collaborators repository with our website’s “contributors” folder (making it much easier to credit appropriately), or centralizing and standardizing our deploy scripts.

FujoStore Highlights: Restocks, Sales, and Limited-Time Offers

Are you up smut’s creek without a paddle? If you’re on our Patreon, we can fix that! Whilst scavenging for snacks, loose change, and good ol’ Christmas ornaments, Ms Boba found a bunch of the Fujoboard seconds, which means…

…all our Patreon $upporters are cordially invited to FujoCoded’s First Garage Sale! These back-of-the-closet paddles may have small flaws (such as scratches, nicks, and prominent wood patterns), but are still a classy and refined choice for your kitchen and bedroom needs! They’re up to $20 (+ 20% $upporters discount) off, so get them whilst they’re hot!

Our stock includes:

• Hime boards stamped with the vintage BobaBoard logo—$10 off!
• Utterly unique Hime, only slightly scuffed, with minor marks, colour difference, or wood grain—$20 off!
• Chibi boards, for those of you who aren’t size queens (hey, we don’t judge)—$15 off!

Collaborate with Us!

• [🙏] Who’ll Wrangle the Wranglers?: Our origin project, BobaBoard, is looking for a “Volunteer Wranglers” coordinator! Do you have experience recruiting, organizing, and directing volunteers? Are you excited by the meta-challenge of recruiting, organizing, and directing the volunteers who’ll do this alongside you? And most importantly—are you willing to do what’s needed to get fandom people working together in pursuit of a better fandom web? Let us know by filling BobaBoard's Volunteers Coordinator application form.
• [🙏] Betas seek Alpha: FujoGuide is looking for a beta readers coordinator! The task, for those who choose to accept it, is to sit patiently in a Discord group DMs with other 6-7 fannish beginners as they brave our GitHub issue of FujoGuide and (with your guidance) surface unscathed! You don’t need deep expertise of GitHub to take on this challenge, just be familiar enough with branching, merging, and the pull request process to help people get unstuck. Ideally, we’d like to keep this a volunteer position as it’s traditionally been, but we’d be happy to barter zines, knowledge, or other merch for payment in kind! DM us or write us at [email protected] to apply.
• [💰] Technical Procyon Manager: Sun Tzu said, “if you know not yourself, [...] you will lose half your battles”. Luckily, we don’t just know our weaknesses, we know how to fix them. So we’ll be starting 2026 getting Ms Boba some Project Management support: have experience wrangling milestones in legible dashboards? love pestering (and guiding!) people who owe deliverables? Apply here and come help FujoCoded move away from project charts only Ms Boba can read, while freeing her brain from the woes of keeping folks on track! This is a temporary, part-time position to help us regroup and set up a working system.

That’s All, Fujin!