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.