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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