Episode 62: Shaving Yaks with Anthony Fu

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 (https://antfu.me/)
- Anthony Fu on Twitter (https://twitter.com/antfu7)
- Anthony Fu on GitHub (https://github.com/antfu)
- VueUse (https://github.com/vueuse/vueuse)
- i18n Ally (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Lokalise.i18n-ally)
- Vite (https://vitejs.dev/guide/#overview)
- A Fly Went By (https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Went-Beginner-Books/dp/0394800036)
- Ionic (https://ionicframework.com/vue)
- A Short Hike (https://ashorthike.com) (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch)
- Anybody else's brain do this? (https://twitter.com/joshuaneall/status/1351295209536061445), Joshua Neal
- Code Reviews: Honesty, Kindness, Inspiration: Pick 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP_2XKYia9I), Jacob Stoebel (RubyConf 2017)
- Dodow (https://www.mydodow.com/dodow/en-us/home)
- Hal replacing a light bulb (https://youtu.be/8fnfeuoh4s8), Malcom in the Middle
- Cyberpunk 2077 (https://www.cyberpunk.net) (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Stadia)
- Icones.js.org (http://icones.js.org)
- Schitt's Creek (https://www.netflix.com/title/80036165), CBC (Netflix)
- Autonomous.ai standing desks (https://www.autonomous.ai)
- Enjoy the Vue on Twitter (https://twitter.com/enjoythevuecast?lang=en)
- Enjoy the Vue (https://enjoythevue.io/) Special Guest: Anthony Fu.

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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