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!✨

With YOUR support we can pay key roles AND have space to grow volunteers! Help us get fandom working together for a better fandom...web ✨ -💰Project Manager [PAID part-time] (forms.gle/tRwvwFHcBjAp...) -🙏BobaBoard Volunteer Coordinator (forms.gle/SmFv19hmamKV...) -🙏FujoGuide Beta Wrangler (DMs 👀)

Next, your Backerkit funds at work! 🙏 Terminal series is being upgraded under @notavodkashot.bsky.social's thoughtful supervision, our learn@ NPM articles are now friendlier, & the @bobaboard.bsky.social's Docs Bubble has concocted our first collaboration: a soon-to-be-published NVM install guide!

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...

One last post missing to conclude this event! Get your special prices in-between now and when I (slowly 😘) get to finish it up. And this GIVING TUESDAY, give to our Patreon, support the 🌐open fandom web 🌐, and get access to our special sale of yaoi paddles 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/cyberm...

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...

We're extending the launch price for Cyber Monday, and adding...a surprise for Patreon $upporters! Behold, the first FujoBoard garage sale! 👇 $upporters can now buy discounted FujoBoards not quite up to standard, but just as pretty! Check them out 👇 and help us spread this post for its LAST DAY!

🎉 It's HERE & it's LIVE! 🎉 Our Fandom Cookies Digital Pack is now ready for immediate delivery 💨🛍️ For only $12.99 (LAUNCH SPECIAL), you can build your own fortune generator, decorate your devices, seek your fannish future...and get FREE SHIPPING. Details👇🧵 store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

For folks who wish they could have read all the fortunes in our April 1st cookies, they're all inside our fortune generator pack! Nourishment for your body then, nourishment for your brain now 😌 store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

At this point, the "Learn-Along" needs no intro! It's a: 1. 🛠️ Fully-functional interactive site that gives you your own fandom-based fortunes 2. 💬 Heavily commented code for beginners stepping up 3. 🎓 Way to learn modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while playing with real code! But wait— 👀

Our DIGITAL PACK launched yesterday and is now on sale. And if you buy it (or bought it 😘), you'll automatically get 20% off a new chibi or hime FujoBoard as an extra thank you! For a hime, that's more than the cost of the pack itself! 🧀❗🫶 Find both in store: store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

🦃 LAST DAY TO GOBBLE IT UP FOR JUST $9.99 🦃 Will be packing our HTML/CSS/JS learn-along throughout the day, and get it ready to finally ship tomorrow! ✨ Look forward to it 💖 Get it here: store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

Until Friday, you can preorder our learn-along for just $9.99! It's a great chance to treat yourself to some learning, and preload those new year resolution 😘 store.fujocoded.com/products/oth... Find the Table of Contents in the images, and let us know if you have any question. Deep at work now 💪🙏

🚢 Our learn along ship THIS FRIDAY!! 🚢 It's a fully-functional interactive site inspired by the cookies you all loved and tasted 🥠 But unlike the cookies, it is heavily commented and thoughtfully put together so you can learn modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as you play with it! On sale NOW 👇🛍️

Was going to stream work on the store for Friday's launch but my cat bit me as I fought to remove a waffle from her mouth, so it's off to get antibiotics instead! Anyway, buy our HTML/CSS/JS learn-along pack so I don't feel bad about missing a day of promo 😘👇💖 store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

Onward with more polish (and content) as we continue to work up to the final launch NEXT (black) FRIDAY. Check out the table of contents 👇 and get this $9.99 pack in our store!! store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

ONE week to go, and ONE last chance to pre-order our HTML/CSS/JavaScript learn-along at the bargain price of JUST $9.99! Treat yourself to a thanksgiving weekend of learning 🦃 or just pre-plan a treat for your new year resolution 😘 Get it in store!! store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

catching up with discord messages before opening the store admin panel to go up the price 👀 store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

We've sung our pack's praises for weeks, and can't wait to see you all sing them instead—like those who already read it 👀 Inside you'll find: - A full on HTML/CSS/JS course - Wallpapers & website goodies - ...free shipping coupon! All for just $5 (for now) 👇 store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

We'll up the price when we wake up tomorrow so you still/only have a few hours left to get our digital HTML/CSS/JS learn-along at the special $5 soft launch price 😘💖 store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

Please also witness our learning guide 🪴🎓 if you thought "wow, they sure seem to be putting A LOT OF TIME into this pack", this 👇 is (also) why—it shows how much we care! As said before, we know learning to code can be scary; we believe it doesn't have to be! store.fujocoded.com/products/oth... 👈🛍️

IT'S OFFICIAL! As of a couple hours ago, our digital pack preview is in the inboxes of April buyers 🎉 If you're among them, we'd love and cherish your feedback 🙏💖 What was good? What was less so? Help us make it 👇 the BEST RESOURCE 🆒🎓 Only $5 until tomorrow!! store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...

...snatch this guide at the lowest price this side of the launch! For the lowest-it’ll-ever-be price of $5, you can get your fill of: - website goodies 🌐 - wallpapers 🖼️ - ...and a fun, accessible HTML/CSS/JS learn-along for website tinkerers yearning to grow and explore useful, modern techniques!

7 days to our soft launch date! 🎯 It's (almost) time: the preview of our Fortune Cookies Digital Pack will ship to early buyers in just a week, gearing up to the OFFICIAL RELEASE on 🦃 Black Friday 🦃 This is a huge opportunity for us to get early feedback, and a huge opportunity for you to... 👀

Do you love fandom? Do you love coding? If you answered yes to either or both, come join us in cheering on FujoCoded as they near the launch date for their Fortune Cookie pack! Amazing people, amazing company, amazing mission, and they deserve so much love for their efforts. 💕

- 📺 Stream recording (starts at 11:00): www.twitch.tv/videos/25557... - 📖 "Astro Learning Path" Doc: leaflet.pub/117c41f5-52a... - 🌟 Our Patreon (wink wink): www.patreon.com/c/fujocoded

Thank you all that made it to our Astro Learning Path stream 🎉💖 ...and to those that'll watch the recording, of course! We'll dive into what we learned later. In the meantime: 1. Check out the recording on Twitch 2. Read the "learning path" doc we wrote 3. Send us your comments! Links below👇

Starting now!! Jump on in!! www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

Having others write for us was revelatory. We're still working to nail down what learn@ "is" (more info in the newsletter), so we decided to get input from the best: YOU! This Monday, help us brainstorm our next series of articles. Let's teach fans to build their sites 💪 twitch.tv/essentialran...

On my side, I've been working tirelessly to create organizations that involve "everyday fans" in horizontal governance, teaching the skills they need to bring forth a better future. If I convinced you of the importance of this work, help us keep going: www.patreon.com/c/fujocoded

The thrilling conclusion to the "how did BobaBoard came to be" saga :)

Huge thanks goes out to the volunteers at @bobaboard.bsky.social and Ms. Boba for freely sharing their thoughts and resources on sociocracy. Y'all inspire me. 💚

This Saturday, I'm giving the spiritual successor to this talk at @citruscon.bsky.social, "Working Together in a Dying World". If you're a BL fan come to the convention (it's free!), meet new friends, and come listen to it live! And if you're not a BL fan... maybe it's time to become one 😏

We'll only get out of our technological bind by giving users the tools and knowledge they need to come shape the Indie Social Web in a way that truly feels *theirs*—flattening the Hierarchy of Power that divides them and platform runners. This is power-within: knowing YOU can make a difference.

The talk (and article) offers counterarguments to the objections we've found our community members raise when called to step into their power. I was anxious to name it, but learned helplessness resonated a lot. @mmasnick.bsky.social talked about "digital helplessness" recently. This is our enemy.

Above all, power is not as simple as we make it: while we all understand the power that flows from top to bottom of a hierarchy (power-over), we rarely talk about power that flows FROM the bottom of a hierarchy to the top—even though we see it all the time! Power-under is all around us online.

Rebuilding Community on the (Fujo)Web, pt. 2 This part (my favorite) is all about why "getting help from your community members" is not a straightforward way to exit the Downward Spiral of Indie Projects Burnout. The answer is "simple": power dynamics www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/rebuil...

It's (finally) time! A year after my CitrusCon24 talk & 10 days before my next, Part 1 of my "Rebuilding Community" series is on my blog. This part explores why many indie social projects are caught in a "Downward Spiral" of disillusionment and burnout. www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/rebuil...

Last day for cookies (and free digital pack)!! store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies

It's official! We sold enough gluten free fandom cookies 🥠 to meet the minimum order. These are now the LAST 48 HOURS to buy our cookies before they're gone forever (this time for real...probably)! 👇 store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies Thank you so much EVERYONE for your support! 🎉🥠 you all rock!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself? Buy our cookies for the very last time! 🥠🛍️ store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies 🥠🛍️

Bake Sale 2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening Production is ready! Fortunes are chosen, packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of all: minimum orders! tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!👇 store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies

it's time to demand custom avatar decorations so we can all live the @bobaboard.bsky.social halloween-time experience at scale

If you haven't yet managed to fill (or boost) our writers survey, today is the perfect day to drop your contacts in our "on call" list of writers-for-hire 😉💕 forms.gle/ozx68ghTbcFg...

Are you a writer? Are you in one—or many!—online communities? Do you want to helps us build a better web for our own (fanworks fandom), help yours in the process, and get some 💵🏧💰 in return? FujoCoded is looking for writers of all kinds! Drop your contacts in our form ⬇️ forms.gle/ozx68ghTbcFg...

With ONLY 24 HOURS(ish) left to buy your Fandom Cookies 🥠, what better way to celebrate the *end* of this event than to celebrate those who helped it get its *start*? Go grab some cookies NOW ⬇️ and read on for our ✨Contributors Spotlight✨! 🧵 store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies

Last 24—no, 48 hours!—to get your ✨🥠Fandom Cookies🥠✨!! April 11th (one day later than planned) is your LAST CHANCE to sweeten up your life with some fandom-based Fortune Cookies! Once again, in 3 flavors: Kinda Vanilla 🥠, Chocolate Doves 🍫 and Lemony Prompts 🍋! store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies

ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT...again! Some asked, we listened: ✨ONE EXTRA DAY✨ of fortune cookie buying for everyone—both as a treat, ofc, and to enjoy a delicious 💵 paycheck Friday 💵! Which means...ONE EXTRA DAY to defeat Chocolate🍫🕊️! Vanilla🥠! Lemon🍋! We believe in you! store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies

BIG SHAKE UP in the final days of our Cookie Run! Chocolate Doves🍫 leads by not 1, not 2, but 5 cookies! A big spurt, since Lemony Prompts🍋 was yesterday's #1. The race isn't over! Will the former king retake the throne? Will "Kinda Vanilla🥠" rise up? Find out👇 store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies

Only 3 DAYS left in our Fandom Cookies campaign, and the run-kings continue being head to head! Lemony Prompts and Chocolate Doves now sit at JUST 1 UNIT distance, with Kinda Vanilla only 3 UNITS behind. The gap can still be bridged! Help your fave win: store.fujocoded.com/fandom-cookies