Ms Boba (rebuilding community era)
essentialrandom.bsky.social
Ms Boba (rebuilding community era)
@essentialrandom.bsky.social
https://essentialrandomness.com

Software engineer (and more) on a mission to bring community back to the web. Founder of @fujoweb.dev, https://fujocoded.com/ and https://bobaboard.com/. Loves building random, chaotically-delightful stuff. 🇪🇺🇺🇸
Pls help us boost our call for a volunteer coordinator 👇 before i start busting out the sherlock gifs

forms.gle/evUr3VXMV1ba...
January 8, 2026 at 9:03 PM
"I'm winning but at what cost"

(running experiments to check if my logic is sound, leading to tears and new edge cases)
December 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"ms boba, is this chart correct?"
December 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This year give yourself the gift of finally figuring out how to update robinboob.com (robinboob.com) with new characters and fandoms 👀

(If you're wondering why it took so long pls consult the chart 👇)
December 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
And this isn't even mentioning the fact that now i have to write a post to tell social platforms about it PLUS send it to both backerkit and kickstarter
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
When you manage to hit "send" on the newsletter you've been passing back and forth for 2 months
December 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Anyway, they've been in my closet for years, and it's time to set them free. I don't use block-notes, but...others do? They're post-it sized, cute, and—important!—emblazoned with the Superior Pattern™ (grid of dots).

Donate to @fujocoded.bsky.social to save both the environment AND the web today! 😂
December 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
[FREE-ish STUFF]

tl;dr: want some FREE dot grid post-its that don't stick (but still work as tiny block-notes) for the small price of shipping costs + a choose-your-amount donation to @fujocoded.bsky.social ? Reply to this post or hit me up in my DMs!

(🧵👇 below for story time)
December 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We could have our own Bob
December 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
this is a call for help, actually ☠️
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Supposed to stream today but I'm just like
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
First vs last post.

"This," as they say, "kills the man."

If you know someone (maybe you) who's really reliable and could do a good job mimicking my voice for some kind of reasonable fee/bartering, please save me, my crops are dying. 😭
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
what could go wrong

(I was afraid I had misconfigured and it'd send emails to buyers before release)
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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...
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"hey ms boba did you really spend yet another day working until midnight on this digital pack?"
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Was up until 5AM yesterday to wrap this up, which means I accidentally forgot to shout out the extra versions I added:

1) Only syntax comments, quicker to read
2) Syntax-highlighted to open in your browser, for those who might not have access to it otherwise!
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The new split (paired with reordering individual rules to build a better progression and narrative) really helps create those very important natural breathing—and sometimes skipping!—points.

You can't keep flexbox from being a meaty chunk to digest, but you can set a nice table (of contents)
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
For example, here you can see the difference between the Table of Content for the CSS pt.1 after yesterday's revision vs when I started. While the content was already written, the order and progression of the topics felt overwhelming—partly unavoidable, since it's *a lot* of important concepts.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Haven't been keeping people *quite* as informed about progress on this as I intended for our ~accountability push~ 💪🌟, but in my defense this is what the more accurate todo list turned out in practice

...but it's also a perfect representation of the level of care put in the learning experience 👩‍🏫✨
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Torpedo'd my morning a little so today's progress will have to be later in the evening (hopefully), but I am pretty proud of this content warning I added. It's also the perfect excuse to talk about "text-wrap: balance", "vw" units, and potentially* alpha channels in colors.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
And with this, the week continues—it's until Wednesday, so I can still meet the schedule!!

If you're interested in this digital pack, you can pre-order it from our store for the current, unbeatable price of only $5. Previews shipping soon!

store.fujocoded.com/products/oth...
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The rest of today will be dedicated to rearranging the individual CSS rules, adding or removing details. I already did a lot of fiddling while writing this summary!

The goal is to create a narrative flow where each step builds on the previous, balancing approachability with a nudge towards depth.
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In this first pass of the final pass, I focused on the overall structure: one thing we only saw after putting words to bytes, is that the content is *long*. They're really comprehensive lessons!

So, I've been splitting each file in sections to help with overwhelm and give natural resting points.
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We've already wrapped up the lesson content for the HTML and JS parts—a lengthy process since a) it's our first pack of this type b) it was planned by me, but written by github.com/riazaia!

What's missing is my final pass on our CSS to make language, formatting, and content the best they can be!
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM