This is significant semantic drift from the original meaning of yak shaving.
Building your own is great, but it's not yak shaving.
Yak shaving is fixing fractal brokenness that you notice while punching through layers of existing systems to finally fix the root cause of the original thing you cared about.
Building your own is great, but it's not yak shaving.
Yak shaving is fixing fractal brokenness that you notice while punching through layers of existing systems to finally fix the root cause of the original thing you cared about.
See, e.g. Hal replacing a lightbulb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0