A few weeks ago I went live with a brand-new project: The Deviant Quarterly Review is a real-life infographic of the hottest social media stories of the quarter. It’s curated four times annually by the awesome folks over at Social Deviant, where my friend Pavan Bapu works. The graffiti artist, CZRPRZ, painted the mural in twenty-four hours. The timelapse video of the mural was shot by director/producer extraordinaire Yuriy Chernin. Initially I implemented the video as a full-screen background using BigVideoJS, which includes a Flash fallback for users on older browsers. After a couple of days of analyzing the site traffic, though, I switched to plain HTML5 video – we had very few visitors on older browsers requiring Flash, and this seemed like a more lightweight way to deliver video to almost everyone without running the risk of Flash malfunction and superslow load times [plus, the BigVideo plugin added about...

I lost my mom to breast cancer, and as a result, I can't stand those damned pink ribbons.

All work and no play makes Amanda Lee a dull girl [who writes crappy markup, eats too much garbage trying to stay awake, gets snippy with her friends, and eventually falls asleep while sitting at her desk].

A quick administrative note: I started a brand-spanking new job this month and I’m having a blast. I’ll be doing front-end mobile development and design with these lovely folks, who are seriously some of the most brilliant people I’ve ever interacted with. I’m still kind of shocked they brought me on, and I’m working my tail off to keep up. Lifehacker types love to talk about time management because it’s important, and I’m not going to argue about that. But I’m learning that I’ve got another limitation that’s possibly even greater – limited attention. I’m not talking about ADHD, which I quite possibly also have. [Fun fact: I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, but my mom didn't want me to be medicated for it. I still never have been, though I fantasize about how much more I could get done if I were.] What I mean is, I...

My Etsy shop, I Love Life I Love You, has sat unused for almost a year now. And I'm okay with that.

Chris made this video two years ago, and it’s still amazing. Merry holidays, y’all.

[I'm trying to do 31 new things in my 31st year.

One of my clients is a couple that owns several restaurants in the Cincinnati area who are opening a brand-new restaurant concept. We’re holding off on launching a full site until they’re certain when they’re opening, but for the time being, I made a quick placeholder site. I suggested the email signup form so that we can keep track of the people that want more information about Tot Dogs. After the full site launches, we’ll send an email announcement, and then that list will be our marketing list if we end up doing any email campaigns. [And it goes without saying, if you live in Cincinnati and you're into gourmet hot dogs, you should totally sign up for the list. It'll be neato.] The logo was done, so it was just a matter of finding a color scheme that worked well with it. I think it looks great. Don’t you?...