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Aug 2023
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Supper Club × How Descript Built A Next ...

Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack Javascript Web Developers
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrew Lisowski about working on Descript, web streams vs local storage, using state machines, writing CSS with Radix, monorepos, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:07 What is Descript? Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. Work — Sandwich 02:21 Who is Andr ... Show More
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