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Are you a writer?

Are you in one—or many!—niche online communities? Do you want to helps us build a better web for our own community (fanworks fandom), help yours in the process, and get some money 💵🏧💰 in return?

FujoCoded is looking for all kinds of writers! Drop your contacts in our form ⬇️

As a reminder, FujoCoded LLC works to bring internet weirdos together and to empower niche communities to reclaim their online spaces! Help us help the web by lending us your talents ⬆️ our supporting our work on Patreon ⬅️!

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therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

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It's that time of the week, and our "Guestbook on ATproto" stream is starting... now! Let's get our client to finally talk to our new AppView, then implement more functionality on top!

Join us

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[Seeking Referrals]

tl;dr: I’m looking to hire a career consultant/resume writer to wrangle my wide-spanning career&projects into a coherent story that does justice to all I do. Experience with indie/alternative paths preferred!

For more context, you can check out my current “hire me” page: www.essentialrandomness.com/resume I don’t believe it does justice to who I am, what I can do, and where my expertise lie, and I’ve accepted I’m too busy to wrangle it into shape. Please boost and help me find a good match :) 🙏

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New Contractor Announcement ✨

Friends, please welcome our new contractor and first-official-sysadmin, Kat 🎉

Kat is not only a long-term member of Fandom Coders, but a prolific self-hoster of fandom software, and we're SO excited to have her aid in our quest!

Over the next few months Kat will work on getting our servers in order: from backing up our data, to setting up monitoring of our resources (no more accidental 20GB log file), to much needed "service down!" alerts. She'll also help us set up infrastructure for future services!

This is Kat's first professional experience as a sysadmin, and a huge step in our mission to create opportunities for members of the fandom community!

If you'd like to join us, we're looking for writers, technical and not! Drop your contact in our form 👇⬇️👇

And if you'd like to give *your* aid to our mission of creating professional opportunities for software hobbyists (and beyond) in our community, ESPECIALLY now that being a junior in tech is so incredibly hard, support us on Patreon!

Help us help them help the web!!

(Last thing, to get ahead of potential questions about Kat's TOS banning certain content from her sites: we talked extensively about her stance on issues dear to fandom, and we're comfortable with where she stands. Likewise, we stand by her right to choose what she's personally comfortable hosting.)

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In the nick of time but... OUR NEWSLETTER IS OUT, with a paid opportunity for tech writers 💰👇👀

Check it out above ☝️, and then come on TWITCH and watch me build the 3rd part of our GuestBook Lexicon: the actual AppView (this time for real, I swear)!!

BOOSTS APPRECIATED!!

Geese, Guides, and Good Luck Cookies 🪿📔🥠... and a (paid) Call for Writers 📝💰

It's out! Check out this month's update, including: our visit to #ATmosphereConf (feat. geese yaoi 🪿), our plans for the fortune cookies revenue 🥠, news on the GitHub Guide Beta and... A 💰PAID💰 opportunity for daring—not to mention aspiring—tech writers 📝⬇️

Call for hire

This month we’re once again happy to share a paid position: come forth technical writers (and aspiring such), and let us bring you on a Now Paying Money adventure!

Smithing Words📝…for Money (💰): After much time, feedback, and outlining, the “Introduction to JavaScript with NPM” articles financed through our founding campaign are ready to be written! Now we’re finally looking for technical writers (fannish background appreciated) to help us inspire new, confident explorers of everything the NPM ecosystem has to offer—and yes, we (also) mean Astro. Check out some of the articles in our learning website for an example of what the final artifacts should look like, and get in touch if you’re up for the (paid) task! We require both basic computer knowledge and the willingness to run simple command line programs, but we don’t require previous experience with professional technical writing NOR pre-existing knowledge of NPM/JavaScript. Just send us some tutorials or other explainers you’ve written!

Smithing Videos📹…for Glory: Are you willing to wrangle video wranglers? BobaBoard’s documentation bubble is looking for a wondrous lead volunteer to coordinate our wonderful video volunteers as they turn our many, many hours of recorded web development and BobaBoard documentation into something the whole FujoVerse™ and beyond can put to good use. If you have previous experience with managing work on video, or have been part of similar work and want to build some managing experience of your own, reach out!

If any of these calls for aid sound up your alley, or if you’d like to get involved in other ways, please reach out at contacts@fujocoded.com or via DMs!

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Time to continue our journey towards an ATproto-based GuestBook! Come build an AppView with me...and let's learn together what that means!

Starting now:

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No stream today as I catch up with my HUUUGE todo list, but *absolutely* stream this Thursday at 3PM Pacific! It's time to get that Guestbook lexicon an AppView...after we learn what an AppView is!

See you (and catch part 1) here 👇

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me when i finish packing all those cookies

Me when my fortune cookies from @fujocoded arrive.

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Me when my fortune cookies from @fujocoded arrive.

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Last day for fortune cookies!

Check out the amazing contributors that helped make this year's 100%-serious-April-1st-joke a reality ⬇️

And make sure to get your cookies (and FREE ITEM) before they're gone!

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✨! 🧵

✨CONTRIBUTORS SPOTLIGHT✨

Let's start from the big pict—I mean, site! The stunning home of our cookies was lovingly coded by @essential-randomness and Ria based on a design by CatBathingSun. Adorning it, you'll find beautiful art created under the brilliant direction of @ymkse!

…and speaking of art, let's take it from the (literal) top.

Our "Raccoon Express" logo, which intellectuals will recognize as a parody of prolific-fortune-cookies-purveyor "Panda Express", was skillfully crafted by Hyena.

Behold, the creature!

Going right down, our beautiful title splash, also featured on our promotional material. This, like much of the art peppered throughout our page, is the masterful work of art director, contributor, and "Resident Cookie Run Expert" @ymkse.

More below the cut!

Loved collecting the fortune cookies throughout the store (and the FREE digital pack they carefully guard)? They came together with this delightful (and delighted) Boba-tan by the incredible @kiingfluffybuns!

...and speaking of gathering cookies, the fantastic art presenting our HTML Cookie Challenge is once again drawn by Hyena and YouTube-ified by @essential-randomness. Please notice the "graphic design is my passion" shirt, and the phone charms (with closeup)!

But a serious April 1st joke is not made of only art! Many friends worked tirelessly behind the scenes to sweeten this chaotic April, and will now even more tirelessly pack over 100 boxes of cookies 🥠🥠

As someone said, "once again, victims of our own success (affectionate)"!

Among the helpers, @enigmalea, @elendraug, @a-brilliant-loser, @xieliansbignaturals and our own Secret Final Boss. Not to mention https://blorbo.social/@legaosaure and @harvestspriteirl who contributed sexy art and fics to our cause!

And with this, our last 🥠reminder🥠. Our cookies will be available for the whole day of the 11th, then gone once @essential-randomness wakes up tomorrow.

See you next April 1st, and support our mission (🖼️⬇️) year-long on Patreon!

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Last 24—no, 48 hours!—to get your ✨🥠Fandom Cookies🥠✨!!

We're almost there: April 11th (one day later than planned) is your LAST CHANCE to sweeten up your life with some fandom-based Fortune Cookies!

Once again, Fandom Cookies come in 3 different flavors each with its own special selection of carefully-crafted fortunes:

🥠 "kinda vanilla", for the tasteful shipper

🍫 "chocolate doves", for those who like 'em spicy

🍋 "lemony prompts", for the scenario-ponderers

...all also in gluten free! Plus a secret FREE DIGITAL ITEM on the site for those who dare explore it.

Remember: your purchase helps @fujocoded (that is, us) teach online communities to take charge of their own web—not to mention hire fan creators to help!

Buy Cookies here!

...and if you want 15% off, check out our Patreon! Or, if you already bought them and now want MORE, use code ENCORE at checkout for free shipping!

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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 Doves🍫🕊️!

Kinda Vanilla 🥠! Lemony Prompts 🍋! We believe in you!

HELP THEM WIN HERE

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Code stuff is hard, thank goodness for @fujowebdev or I would not have any confidence with command prompts or even of attempting to back up nonsense with tumblr utils.

Its not working yet, but I'm getting there!

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BIG SHAKE UP

...in the final days of our Cookie Run-kings!

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 in store

There's only a few days left to buy your favorite flavor of cookie-and-fandom fortunes! How many? We aren't sure! Our team has been heavily debating whether "ends on the 10th" means 2 or 3 days left.

Only one way to not worry about it: act NOW! Buy Cookies ⬇️

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BIG SHAKE UP

...in the final days of our Cookie Run-kings!

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 in store

There's only a few days left to buy your favorite flavor of cookie-and-fandom fortunes! How many? We aren't sure! Our team has been heavily debating whether "ends on the 10th" means 2 or 3 days left.

Only one way to not worry about it: act NOW! Buy Cookies ⬇️