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type: podcast
authors:
  - alex-patterson
  - brittney-postma
episode: 18
guests:
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recording_date: February 18, 2022 11:00 AM
season: 2
published: published
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excerpt: Una Kravets is a DevRel extraordinaire making CSS magic at Google.
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start: May 4, 2022
title: Making the Web Easier to Build
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVPvZe5aZc
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## Questions

1. Can you give us some background on how you got here?
2. Transition DevRel lead at Google
3. Job at Web platform for chrome and dev tools
4. What is the connection between Chromium and Chrome Browser?
5. We are going to have an entire episode on OpenUI, but could you give us a brief overview of it?
6. What was the inspiration behind web.dev?
   1. What are your goals for the web.dev?
7. How did you get started with the Toolsday Podcast?
8. How closely do you work with other browser teams?
9. What is Cascade Layers?
   1. [https://developer.chrome.com/blog/cascade-layers/](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/cascade-layers/)
10. Can you use !important?
11. What is your favorite CSS trick?
    1. [https://web.dev/one-line-layouts/](https://web.dev/one-line-layouts/)
    2. [http://1linelayouts.glitch.me/](http://1linelayouts.glitch.me/)
    3. [https://una.im/](https://una.im/)
12. What is your favorite new CSS feature?
13. What is one thing you can do to make your site better?

### Alex Patterson

useHooks - [https://usehooks-ts.com/](https://usehooks-ts.com/)

CSS Podcast - [https://thecsspodcast.libsyn.com/](https://thecsspodcast.libsyn.com/)
