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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]

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Special Guest: Anthony Fu.

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