Episode 62: Shaving Yaks with Anthony Fu

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Key Points From This Episode:

• Introducing Anthoy Fu and his contributions as a member of the core Vue team.
• Anthony’s explanation of ‘yak shaving’ followed by stories of yak shaving experiences.
• Yak shaving experiences of Anthony’s and why he enjoys it more than doing actual work.
• Viewing yak shaving as a form of trying things out to see if they are good ideas or not.
• An explanation of Vueuse, and examples of some of its Vue composition utilities.
• How Anthony got involved with Vue and open source during his college days.
• What Anthony is most excited about in the Vue system looking forward: Vite!
• Features about Vite that Anthony is excited about and his contributions to the space.
• How everybody deals with new ideas; whether they track them and act on them.
• Whether the team get other people to do their yak shaving for them!
• When to go down the rabbit hole or put everything on the yak burner!
• This week’s picks; standing desks, yak shaving videos, and more.

Tweetables:

• “Yak shaving refers to attacks that leads you to perform another related attacks, and so on and so on, all detracting you from the original goal.” — @antfu7 [0:01:12]
• “Vue Use is a collection of Vue composition APIs, composable functions that could be reused.” — @antfu7 [0:10:53]
• “I had heard about Vue, but I didn't try it. At that time, I thought jQuery works fine, why try a new thing? Then it tried it. Yeah, after and doing a few other projects, I got obsessed with it immediately.” — @antfu7 [0:18:21]

Resources Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

• Anthony Fu
• Anthony Fu on Twitter
• Anthony Fu on GitHub
• VueUse
• i18n Ally
• Vite
• A Fly Went By
• Ionic
• A Short Hike (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch)
• Anybody else's brain do this?, Joshua Neal
• Code Reviews: Honesty, Kindness, Inspiration: Pick 3, Jacob Stoebel (RubyConf 2017)
• Dodow
• Hal replacing a light bulb, Malcom in the Middle
• Cyberpunk 2077 (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Stadia)
• Icones.js.org
• Schitt's Creek, CBC (Netflix)
• Autonomous.ai standing desks
• Enjoy the Vue on Twitter
• Enjoy the Vue

Special Guest: Anthony Fu.

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