Greetings, fu(jo|dan|jin) and friends, It's been a busy busy time in the Fujoverse: plenty of lessons learned, cool stuff sent out (and preparing to be sent), plus new learn@ articles—that you paid pay for😋!——and how could we forget...the catboys?
This edition, we're switching BackerKit's newsletter order around a bit, starting straight out with the updates of this specific campaign with a selection of the rest of the FujoVerse™ below. We hope this helps you focus on what's relevant to you, but still keep an eye on what the company you helped us fund it's doing. It's exciting stuff!
If you want to see ALL our updates (including the catboys), sign up to our full newsletter or read it on our site. This special edition also has an exclusive "working on it live" version, going more in depth about the behind the scenes of the work we've been doing.
Above all, make sure you don't miss the news about our upcomingAstro Learning Path Brainstorming Stream below on Monday, September 1st, 2PM Pacific! We'd love to have your direct input about the direction of the learning material you helped us fund.
And with this, let's get to it!
FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Recent
NPMployees:We landed our first articles—that you paid for!—written by someone other than Ms Boba, and learned a lot from the process! Such as “Wow, this stuff costs money” and “Huh, other people write differently to me”. Even with these obstacles our hired writers knocked it out of the park. You can find the fruits of their labour in the new “JavaScript beyond the Browser” section of [email protected]!
Feeding Frenzy: We’ve also learned that holy hell, fans tasked with “just uploading” new article drafts on our learning site will instead rip them apart like piranhas on a cow, and rebuild them better like… piranha scientists on a cyborg cow. Unlike this simile, the final articles came out great! Next time, we’ll save time and effort by intentionally channeling this energy, perhaps into some kind of prose-editing FujoBeam.
Barely Beginners: We also got some great feedback about our terminology: turns out a lotta people read “beginners” to mean “Starting from scratch” rather than our “Ankle-deep and wanting more”. With this in mind, we’re gonna work on improving our messaging for learn@ and beyond, so we can fujo-snipe our main targets into coding forces of yaoi!
A Need for NPM: Finally, our new content had a bit of a mid-creation crisis—the NPM articles are useful, but it’s not always clear where they fit, especially to hobbyists. Next up, we’re taking them out to buy a motorbike and hooking them up with Astro, so that together you all can shoot for the stars. More below!
FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Future
Dressing to Impress:One of our writers, Rie,gave us some excellent post-article-delivery advice, like how to do “better storytelling” and "clearer content guidelines”, which they claim are “important”. Under their guidance, we’ll be evolving the style guide in preparation for our next learn@ releases!
Shooting for the Stars: As mentioned, we plan to showcase NPM’s learning value by tying it closer to Astro like it’s a 3-legged race! We’re still working on the details, but we’ll keep you all updated—nay, involved: next week, we’ll be gathering feedback live from you on stream*! Join our “Learning Path Plan-Along (Astro edition)” Twitch stream on Monday, September 1st, 2PM Pacific!
FujoCoded General Company News
Buy Our Love: We have not one, but TWO new Patreon tiers:"Supporter Georg”, because someone asked to give us $100, and “You Fund Me(ette)?”, because we had to make a $50 one too, just for good measure! We’re running out of names though so don’t ask us for $200… unless? 👀 (if you can't find them on Patreon, just keep clicking to the right 😜)
Lemon-stealing Applause: Ms Boba’s CitrusCon talk “Working Together in a Dying World”debuted to raving reviews. If you want to read about toxic collaboration triangles, and toxic triangular villains, you can find the slides here and various thematically-related works on AO3, we’re sure.
That’s How the Cookie Crumbles:Our Fandom Cookies are all mailed out and no longer threaten to crush Ms Boba in a devastating, if hilarious, avalanche—which means people have already been stuffing their mouths with delicious treats! And also the cookies. Thanks to Linky and an Anonymous Supporter for the promo pics!
Here’s Some We Made Earlier: If that’s not enough, the Digital Cookie Pack is also nearly ready and we’ve hired Hyena, also featured in our promotional art, to make some delicious cookie-themed wallpapers using both their immensurate visual skills andour CSS wallpaper maker.
Getting Our Teaching Degree: Speaking of the Digital Cookie Pack,we’re also working on the promised JS/HTML/CSS learn-along. It is going steady, but ut taught us that even our multitasking has limits… at least when it comes to deadlines. Next time, only a “basic" or “fancy" code version in our learn-alongs, not both!
Around the FujoVerse
In the press
Talking Double: Hot off the tails of this year's Citrus Con talk, Ms Boba jumped straight into the DashCon 2 ball pit to give last year’s again. Check out the “Rebuilding Community on the FujoWeb” re-recording to hear how shit’s, well, still pretty fucked in the “running social media platforms” world—or, if you prefer, just her dispassionate rambling in the final Q&A.
Writing Triple: If watching is not your cup of (git)tea, the third and last part of “Rebuilding Community on the FujoWeb” is also all yours for reading!Continue from where you left off to learn more about the journey ahead, or start back from the beginning to understand how we got here and how we (might) get out.ß
Wall Pa(m)pered: Our “HTML&CSS Wallpaper Maker” got an upgrade! The Fortune Cookies wallpapers (soon in our digital pack!) dusted off our memory of its inner workings, which means we’ve released our “internal upgrades” for everyone to enjoy. You too can now create HTML snippets to reuse multiple wallpapers. What better way to practice your HTML & CSS? Make some wallpapers, and share them with us on socials!
To knock our ATproto guestbook up...we mean, out in record time, we’re back (with a vengeance) to our double-feature Monday+Thursdays schedule. As always, join our coding adventures on Twitch at 3PM Pacific...ish. We may be on air more often, but not always more on time 🙇♀️!
More importantly: the increased schedule once again leaves us space for some special edition streams. This time, we’re inviting everyone to come brainstorm the future Astro section of our learn@ website with us!
It remains true, month after month: writers, coders, and artists are always welcome to submit their business cards via our Business Cards Drop-off Forms. When hiring opportunities arise, we always pull these contacts up as we search for the right candidates!
Speaking of which, welcome to the special contracting opportunities we're hiring for at this time 👇
💰Digital Relea$e: Are you a hype-generating machine? Do you know how to make online dwellers' hearts go doki doki? Help us create a release plan for our upcoming Digital Pack! While you won't have to do everything yourself, we need your help thinking through this launch, and planning (maybe even writing) content that gets all our supporters to share our joy...and, hopefully, their money.
💰WRITEME.md: Do you like writing? Do you like (even just some) coding? Do you love the idea of empowering others to, as they say, "supercharge" their coding powers with pre-made libraries or integrations? Come write the README.md files for our repositories, and tell others how to put our code to their own use! First step: our WIP @fujocoded/authproto integration, which adds ATproto authentication to any Astro site and lets visitors log in.
To express interest for these short-term opportunities, use our expedited "Hiring Right Now" form to let us know you're currently available, and a good match for the position. If you don't quite fit (and have filled out our usual forms), we'll still look over those records to find additional candidates.
That's all, folks!
And with that, our August [update] is finished! See you next edition for more adventures together!
Love, The FujoCoded Team (A Confluence of Calamities)
