🌸✨ 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!