Supper Club × How Descript Built A Next Gen Video Editor In The Browser With Andrew Lisowski

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Episode: Supper Club × How Descript Built A Next Gen Video Editor In The Browser With Andrew Lisowski
Pub date: 2023-08-18



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 Andrew Lisowski? Andrew Lisowski (@HipsterSmoothie) / X hipstersmoothie.com Descript (@DescriptApp) / X devtools.fm 04:51 How does Descript interact with the webcam? 08:52 Web streams vs local first Web Streams Explained — Syntax Podcast 587 10:06 How are you exporting video? GitHub - Yahweasel/libav.js: This is a compilation of the libraries associated with handling audio and video in ffmpeg—libavformat, libavcodec, libavfilter, libavutil, libswresample, and libswscale—for emscripten, and thus the web. Riverside.fm - Record Podcasts And Videos From Anywhere 14:40 How does Descript deal with recording fails? 17:17 How does Descript design and build the UI? 19:37 What did you like about state machines? XState - JavaScript State Machines and Statecharts 24:12 How are you writing your CSS with Radix? Themes – Radix UI Home | Open UI 30:30 How does the marketing site’s tech stack compare? 31:44 Playwright vs Cypress Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright JavaScript Component Testing and E2E Testing Framework | Cypress 36:26 What tech do you use for monorepos?