Digital pack launch, Garage Sale 📦, and... so. many. articles.

Greetings, fu(jo|dan|jin) and friends,
End of year celebrations are upon us, and what better way to usher them in than the unique—and belated 🙇—gift of a signature FujoCoded update?

Venture down this edition for the release of our first publicly-buyable teaching product (a one-of-a-kind tour de force that truly stretched our resources), the steadfast progress on taking the production of learn@ content off Ms Boba’s tired shoulders, and the many things happening in the ever-expanding FujoVerse™!

FujoCoded General Company News

• 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.

• Executive Release: In the spirit of baiting two seme with one uke, our Digital Pack release did not just deliver over 120 of them, “freebies” included, it also showed us how we’d fare with a prolonged release campaign! Let’s just say with only one Ms Boba and many, many cookies (and threads), we did have to crowdsource our executive function. Thankfully, we also engaged the socials-wrangling help of queercatboy and Elendraug. Next launch campaign challenge… FujoGuide Issue 1? 👀

• Documentation Depot: Behold, our latest (a)live-but-in-progress site, community.fujocoded.com (or “community@”, for friends)! Here we’ll stock up all of our resources on community building and governance, set up more central documentation for our libraries, and share some of the internal FujoCoded know-hows for everyone’s eyes. Huge thanks to our friend Gingerchew for helping us style it with some fujo-flair!

• Very Important Progress: The exclusive lounge for our Big Money spenders—that is, our $upporters area—is coming together nicely. The VIPs who get past the velvet rope will soon get access to secret shops, discount codes, and the ability to emblazon their blorbo on a wall for all to see (old-timers may remember BobaBoard’s “Volunteers Blorbo Wall”). Touchofstatic, our webdev for hire did a great job giving the site a first coat of style and code, while our long-term contractor Ria pulled Stripe PayPal, and Patreon’s heads out of their collective asses APIs to set up the user database.

• Cleaning Up Our Act 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! For the animated Disney-style montage of the raccoon(girl)s working their cleaning magic, throw us a few hundred bucks and we’ll see what we can do.

• Software Shippers: …and finally, we’ve kept on shipping both blorbos and software libraries! You’ll find the in-depth update, covering everything from more AO3.js functionality to the (re)rise of Astrolabe in the “in the Git(hub)” section below. For now, simply join us in cheering our hired hand Haetae who braved Authproto’s code to give it us a README, a folder of usage examples, and a whole series of bug discoveries!

FujoCoded Backerkit Update

Editor’s Note: BackerKit funds helped launch learn@ by funding our Terminal and NPM series, so we’ll be officially including all progress here from here on out!

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.

The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development

Recent Progress on FujoGuide

• Hyena in the Docs House: Our Volume 0 Issue 2 (GitHub) beta readers spoke clearly: while Issue 1 dropped ‘em straight into the HTML-dress-up action (good), Issue 2 took too long to get to the point, which hurt the experience (bad). To fix this, we once again Hired our Humble, Helpful, Hardworking-Hand, Hyena to Heroically Herd our Hypertext and Hone our Headlines—that is, to rewrite the beginning of our Issue 2 as articles for learn@, and make this catb… erm, extra content a free-for-all. Progress is ongoing!

• Delivering Digital Demos: Little-known fact about our digital pack: far from just serving as our probe into today’s “fujin-targeted webdev education” market, it was also conceived as a test run for the release of FujoGuide Issue 1 (which is currently gnawing at its containment crate as it begs for the sweet release of…well, release). But while this push gave us the push to upgrade our shop for digital deliveries, it also pushed our current capacity—that is, it showed us the need for a more sustainable system for long-running hype campaigns…a must-solve for next year!

• Searching for Iss-you 2: The re-drafting and re-beta’ing of Issue 2 hit—alas, unfortunately, but perhaps appropriately—2 snags. The first one (now resolved) was Ms Boba’s teaching energy getting Denial-of-Service’d by dual-wielding the digital learn-along release and the hand-off of learn@ articles to new writers. The second one (still pending) is that one of our longest-time friends, collaborators, and in this case corral-er of beta readers had to suddenly step back for personal reasons. So as they say, dear readers, the search is on: are you—yes, you!—willing to use your Version Control knowledge to help our betas safely take on a treacherous alpha (our GitHub zine)? Let us know in the “collaborate with us” section below!

What’s Next for FujoGuide

• No Dodging this Draft: With the new year rising, we’ll unwrap ourselves from other predicaments and re-wrap our focus around the coordination of Issue 2 Beta #2—this means both wrapping up the second draft, and unwrapping a shiny, new wrangler for our betas. The holiday haze may slow things down, but we don’t expect the search to take long: we do run a community full of the most helpful and generous coders in fandom, after all! Once a coordinator is found, however, we still need to fit a lot of hands, heads, and schedules together, and give people enough time to go through the guide (and, later, the feedback) at a comfortable pace. We’ll keep you up to date on our socials!

• Eyes on the Prize: We’ve recently answered a question about the longer than planned production for this FujoGuide Kickstarter campaign. If you’ve been feeling a little lost, we hope it’ll explain why we broadened our educational strategy before digging deeper into the delivery of these zines, and how we converged on two longer but more effective books. From the bottom of our hearts: thank you—not only for your patience and support, but for giving us the space to tackle webdev education in the way we believe is most effective. Rest assured: we ourselves cannot wait to put these zines into your hands, and we’ll make it our priority throughout 2026. Onwards, and (as always) beyond!

Intermission — a Word To Our $ponsors

This update (and our ongoing work) is brought to you by our lovely Patrons! Couldn’t keep this running without y’all—raccoons need so much food, and don’t even get us started on their unquenchable thirst for doujinshi.

If you’ve not already boarded our ship, jump on our Patreon now! Tiers start at $3/month, and give you access to coupons and—see our FujoStore highlights below 👀—priority access to discounted or limited-edition merchandise. You’ll soon even be able to showcase your blorbo on a big wall!

Did you know? Studies show our Patrons are 30% more likely to receive long in-depth fanfiction of their rarepairs (it’s true, we swear)!

Around the Fujoverse

In the Press

• Houston, We Have a Badge: The internet (as you know) is all about one thing: making friends. And not only did our Astro “learning path” stream deepen our friendship with the Astro team, it directly led to the creation of the official “Friends of Houston” badge! After hearing us sing the praises of Houston (Astro’s mascot and goodest robot since WALL-E), not to mention their sway with the ladies Static-Site-Generator-seeking fujin, the Astro team concocted this badge and a webring to go with it, so everyone can now become Houston’s special friend.

• Posting Through AT: Social networks (as you also know) are about many things, but chiefly they’re about the collective pondering of The Ultimate Question of Life, the Web, and the Blogosphere: “how does one leave the ones they’re on?” Speaking of which, the FujoVerse™ has been bristling with ATproto discussions, with Fandom Coders’ very own Bluedreaming writing an overview of ATproto’s various parts so folks can learn how to Bluesky (network) without Bluesky (company). Ms Boba also went live to read aloud, correct, expand this article, not to mention pepper it with discourse Spicy Ramblings™ of her own.

• Interview with the AppView: As the ATproto discussion got sizzling, a clear trend emerged on Fandom Coders: while many quickly grasped the whats and whys of Personal Data Servers, AppViews left folks perplexed if not outright confused. So, to help our community talk about—and maybe build? 👀—new ways to connect across the interwebs, Ms Boba wrote a whole explanatory article on AppViews. Then, to top this off with a noteworthy (and very much needed) final bow, she engaged the help of tech activist thisismissem to help her understand and explain the functional difference between ATproto AppViews and ActivityPub software like Mastodon.

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.

Our Streaming Schedule

Ms Boba loves streaming—or so say the allegations—but it’s hard to juggle a stable schedule while also corralling a horde of raccoons in a vaguely-cohesive direction. Which is why, we’re NOT going to promise any particular schedule right now: we’ll make our best effort to maintain the Monday & Thursdays at 3PM tradition, and let you know on our socials if any special stream gets scheduled!

For the rest, come discover what’s up, get Ms Boba to rant about your favorite pet topic (she’s very easy to bait), or just co-work with us while we cry over code! Whether on Twitch or Streamplace, you know where (and when) to find us…mostly!

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!

For a mere $5 more, you can even get some engraved with any of our available wordings—including the sold out ones! See our store for the full list, and become a Patreon subscriber today to access both the Garage Sale AND the traditional store-wide discount. Not to mention, help us pay people to…

Collaborate with Us!

Welcome to the special opportunities we’re recruiting or hiring for at this time 👇 As the new year dawns, we’ll be looking to start it on the right foot with a recurring theme: coordination (of volunteers), coordination (of beta readers), and coordination (of tasks)! Without further ado, check out our volunteer positions (🙏) or head straight to our paid one (💰).

• [🙏] 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 contacts@fujocoded.com to apply.
• [💰] Technical Project 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 emotional support: have experience wrangling milestones in legible dashboards? love pestering (and guiding!) people who owe deliverables? Apply here and save Ms Boba 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!

Phew, what a journey! Thank you for reading (or skimming) all the way down.

We can’t wait to see you in the next year (and newsletter), with even more a moderate quantity of new updates. Since not quite as much time will pass—we pinkie swear!—we hope the update will look thinner, but not for that less meaty.

As always, quality over quantity, mind over matter, seme over uke.

Happy 2026,
Your friends @ FujoCoded LLC