yaip started as a nod to Yacc, Yet Another Compiler-Compiler, the parser generator developed by Stephen C. Johnson at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. A parser is a program that checks whether its input (viewed as a stream of tokens) meets a given grammar specification. As you might expect the name got stuck in my head without actually remembering the meaning. For me it was more about building yet another... todo list, site, ui. We as developers we learn from others, hack and make our own but give back. The world runs those principles.
The original name in my head was yai, short for Yet Another Implementation. The domain was already taken, so the name picked up one more letter and became yaip. The structure stayed intact, and the name found a home of its own.
Once that pattern existed, why not used it more and now we haveyads-ui , which follows the same naming logic: Yet Another Design System. The names stay light, but the work behind is about learning: build uncarefully, keep the surface simple, and ship ideas in public.