2021

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Year in Review

Another year flew by. 2021 continued with the remote-everything world of the previous year. I watched a number of movies, rejoined the world of academia only this time as a faculty member and helped ship some awesome new software products. Let's recap 2021!

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Attended a bunch of events this year. Learned some wonderful new things along the way.

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Chicago Camps Logo
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Renderman Art & Science Fair Logo
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Elderberry

Launched v5 of rehanbutt.com

Home Sweet Home

A new front door to the site with a friendly welcome and hello!

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Updated Bio

more about me with a couple of easter eggs hidden in the bio

Speedometer Icon Improved speed and code optimizations

Filed Away

Archived away a bunch of old projects to make some room for the new and exciting!

Project Heroes

Added a new splash of branding to several projects with project heroes!

These heroes don't wear capes! Edna Mode's no capes!

Project Heroes
Design Ops
Project Management
Systems Design
Mentoring
Process Design
Remote Research
Teaching
Team Manangement
UX Writing
Data Analysis
Motion Design
and many more!
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leveled up

leveled up a bunch more skills this year

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Joined ADPList as a mentor

Joined the Amazing Design People List community. Sharing my design story and meeting other designers and technologists along the way.

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Became adjunct faculty at Duquesne University

Taught Web & Mobile Design, a course where students use principles of visual and interaction design to create some awesome web and mobile experiences.

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Honu Shave Ice Registry Page
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my github analytics

47%

commits

1%

code reviews

*github statsas of Dec 14, 2021

985 contributions

32%

issues

20%

pull requests

First update of the year

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resources added to rehanbutt.com

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watched

161

feature films

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*movie stats as of Dec 14, 2021

56%

which were rewatches

rewatched Marvel's Infinity Saga over a week

that's 23 movies

lasting 49 hours & 56 minutes

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1st Watched

Soul

Pixar's Soul Movie Poster

Sunday Feb 28th

was the busiest with 6 movies watched

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monthly avg

3

weekly avg

Day of the week Breakdown

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12 films

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10 films

w

10 films

t

6 films

f

24 films

s

48 films

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49 films
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That's all folks!

Video calls continued this year

Teams, Zoom, FaceTime, Slack you name it

Today 9:07 AM

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incoming call
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500K+ 10years &

Retired my Nikon D5100 camera after taking more than 500K photos over the last 10 years. It got soaked, sandy and freezing during its travels, but captured some awesome images!

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as another year comes to an end

let's continue making, building and creating awesome things! Have fun, play with ideas and don't forget to explore one or two new things next year!

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