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enigmalea ([personal profile] enigmalea) wrote in [community profile] fandomcalendar2023-04-01 09:41 pm
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Kickstarter Just Launched!

The character roster for The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development. The title is located near the bottom of the graphic in aqua, orange, and pink text surrounded by a lavender bubble. Pink hearts bubble up from the word ‘web’ in the title. The word ‘to’ is framed by a terminal. On the left side of the title is a stylized computer screen showing an image of Boba-tan, the BobaBoard Mascot, wearing a raccoon kigurumi, glasses, and waving in greeting. The background shows six characters that represent from left to right: Git, GitHub, Terminal, CSS, HTML, and ARIA. The background colors form a rainbow.
This April 1st, BobaBoard proudly presents our first ever Kickstarter:

✨The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development✨



Join us for a fun and educational adventure sure to hold the interest of even the most "no studying, only studs" fans.

The secret? Hot fictional men, of course!

If you're new to BobaBoard's April 1st traditions, you might wonder: Is this just an elaborate joke?

As long-term fans know, it’s elaborate, it’s a joke, BUT it’s also a 100% real, high-quality product you can buy.

Check out the full pitch and back us at the FujoGuide Kickstarter page!

Since the very beginning, we have championed the weirdness of fans as the best antidote to the blandness of the corporate-driven web. But pointing out this weirdness is not enough: we must nurture and empower it.

But how do we hold fans' attention in a world full of distractions? Well—
A manga-style black and white drawing of HTML wearing a maid outfit with a short skirt and cat ears. He is standing on a small stage in a casual posture and holding his phone as if using it. He is glancing up with an unimpressed expression at other characters, including CSS and ARIA, who are going buck wild over his sexy maid look in a small panel to the right. The top text reads: The git add command tells Git there is a new file or new changes to already tracked files. Running this command is called staging. Staging the untracked red files mentioned before updates them to green and label them as "newfile" when you run git status again, indicating that Git is aware of them now.Image and Caption: Staging changes to HTML filesThe bottom text reads:Once you're ready for Git to store these changes to its memory, you would run git commit. Commit frequently in order to prevent potential loss of changes!

But jokes aside, there's no joke: with your help we will make #FujoGuide an amazing teaching tool that will (cough) "fill the gaping holes" in current educational materials for web development.

To fix the web, what we have now is not even close to "good enough." Here's why.

While teaching fannish "baby coders," we noticed existing materials fall into two categories:

1. jargon-heavy, complex guides designed for professional developers
2. oversimplified, nostalgia-driven tutorials filled with outdated approaches

…and not ONE hot man in sight!

Instead, #FujoGuide aims to put modern web development techniques into the hands of a fannish public, speaking directly to their needs WITHOUT talking down to them.

We love web development, we love fandom, and we believe that, with the right tools, they'll also love each other.

Character description of FujoGuide’s Git. He looks like a young person with an average body type, orange cat ears and tail, light skin, blue eyes, short bob-style orange hair, and a git logo tattoo under his left eye. He is winking at the viewer. He is wearing an orange cropped hoodie with white puffballs, denim shorts over black tights, white boots, and a white collar. Behind him on the left side is a screenshot of the Git Wikipedia information. The right side has the name Git at the top in pink text outlined in lavender; there is a small stylized terminal over the G and sparkles under the T. The character description is laid out in a kawaii style with mint-green titles and heart bullet points. The text reads:Likes:Gossip; Junk Food; People’s attentionDislikes:Physical exercise; Desserts; GitHub’s attentionAbout him:Localhost HQ’s resident catboy is as cute as he is changeable. Kind and sweet on the surface, his friendly demeanor can easily turn catty when provoked out of strangers’ sight.Despite his moodiness, Git’s photographic memory makes him a powerful ally to those who learn how to tame him.Main TropesFake Cutie; The Prima Donna; Angel/Devil ShipTriviaGit (the technology) will officially be 18 on April 7th, 2023. This equals 10010 years old in programming years.

Character description of FujoGuide’s Terminal. He looks like an older man with an average body type, long white hair with a black streak at his left temple, a black bristly mustache, tan skin, and black nail polish. He is smiling and has his eyes closed. He is wearing jeans, a mint-green button down, brown boots, and a black apron with the words ‘cowsay’ over a doodle of a cow and ‘kiss the cook’ underneath in green. Behind him on the left side is a screenshot of the Bash Wikipedia information. The right side has the name Terminal at the top in pink text outlined in lavender; there is a small stylized terminal over the T and sparkles under the L. The character description is laid out in a kawaii style with mint-green titles and heart bullet points. The text reads:Likes:Taking care of HQ; Keeping Sharp; CatsDislikes:Noise and Chaos; Bad Hosts; Ill-behaved catboysAbout him:The most important member and live-in-maid-pa of localhost HQ. Terminal is always ready to gently nudge beginners towards new adventures.While some of his syntax might be dated, age gives no sign of slowing him down. Quick, powerful and performant, his abilities are feared by beginners and revered by experts.Main tropes:Secret Badass; Eccentric Mentor; Harem Nanny Trivia:Also known as shell. Any resemblance to Revolver Ocelot is completely accidental.

But words can only do so much. To support #FujoGuide and learn more about Version Control, our first—bold!—choice of topic, head down to Kickstarter and (cue YouTuber voice) smash that "back this project" button!

This whole project was created by a small team of fannish people over the course of just two months (yes, really)! The amazing quality of what you see is testament to their infinite talent, passion, and patience. Applause pls (on the credits doc).

And with this… our 30 day countdown begins! As the month progresses, we'll teach you more and more about our new beloved self-shipped blorbos. We know you'll come to love us as much as we do.

You can follow the project and share our posts on other social media:

[x.com profile] fujowebdev | [tumblr.com profile] fujowebdev | fujowebdev


Also if you aren’t already, be sure to follow our mothership project:
[x.com profile] bobaboard | [tumblr.com profile] bobaboard | bobaboard

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[personal profile] adore 2023-04-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
This is hilarious and wonderful! Thank you for creating it!
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Yes ...

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2023-04-03 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
We desperately need this. I have boosted the signal. I'm not a programmer myself, but I have friends who are, and I want people to have good tools.
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Re: Yes ...

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2023-04-03 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I really don't have the capacity to code. I can, just barely, manage a few bits of basic HTML for things like making links in comments. This has a high error rate, due to challenges that are not fixable with extant technology. Trying to debug the thousands of lines of code needed to make a website or program would be impossible. The most I can do is assemble a website using a simple drag-and-drop menu like Weebly has, but that isn't really the direction technology is going.

So, instead I boost the signal for tools that other people can use, hoping that some of them might decide to make things I can use. The corporations certainly aren't, and my talents like elsewhere.
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2023-04-05 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's beautiful :')

JavaScript: nobody likes me i guess i'll go eat worms
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2023-04-06 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha no worries, I was just making a silly joke
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[personal profile] facethestrange 2023-04-11 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
What a FANTASTIC idea and execution! Best of luck with it! :D