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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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