[wilimitis]

I began the year comfortable with React Native and ended the year in a torrid love affair with it - took the time to understand it down to the c++ bridge, forked and modified libraries to implement features that would've taken ages natively, carefully poc'd and sold my team on a simple redux implementation, and built several animated ui components (if it isn't obvious, we're a startup; yes, native is better).

I'm not sure this counts as a "technology" per se, but I've been bitten by the rendering bug and have spent the past year rekindling my traditional artistic passion for visual realism in the context of modern computer graphics techniques and have been fortunate enough to be in a position to apply graduate school for it.