yak shaving is time the dev spends futzing around with tooling configuration, it has nothing to do with the client. Sometimes yak shaving is necessary for a pr

yak shaving is time the dev spends futzing around with tooling configuration, it has nothing to do with the client. Sometimes yak shaving is necessary for a project (Java build config funtimes), in other cases not so much (fiddling with autocompletion plugins in your .vimrc)