Training Ground

Around the global debut of Instagram’s cyber conquest, Chris decided to learn photography without knocking on any teacher’s door. To kill time in Beijing’s streets, he began clicking on the shutter button of a Canon camera that was bought with his student’s savings, circa 2012.

Old profile photo used at `daqhris.me` (stored on GitHub since 2017)

Beginning in 2013 with accelerated dual immersion — in a Chinese urban culture and an American online network — until the season of his sunrise portrait on top of the sacred Mount Tai (Spring 2016), he was scientifically studying computer engineering at an elite technical university. The institution for higher learning was located on a road that is memorable as 学院, a two-letter Mandarin translation of a school within a university, and a homophone of xué yuán, meaning ‘officer cadet’ in the People’s Liberation Army.

On the holiday marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations, he did not skip holding a brand-new computer on his lap. Instead of lighting lanterns on a festival day, 乔里斯 ‘Qiao Li Si’ used his coder name daqhris to release GIT commits inside a cloud environment of foreign computer servers. The commits of February 22, 2016 were effective at merging a #1 request for code changes into his hello-world repository on GitHub. A plain-text comment was hooked to the commit Finish README, scribbled down in Markdown language during school vacation to say what’s next.

Few bits of details about myself, don’t bother reading, pass it on to your kids! Cheers to restraining your ego. 😄

```markdown
# hello-world

Amahoro!  

This is my Hello World project. It is a made of results of my first GitHub tutorial. I am officially taking my baby steps into a new community. Followed instructions can be found here https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/

This winter is wrecking my bones and brains. Therefore, I am cheerfully answering a hotline bling call to pick up on the fingers and nerves break dance! (just don't wanna miss my college grad bus :D)

```

Later on, his artistic style cheaply improved upon digital photography techniques, aided by open-source computing software, playgrounds in public spaces, and dormant engineering knowhow. The awalkaday photographs are monochrome with a 1:1 aspect ratio, and capture fleeting memories recorded during walks geofenced to Belgian and, in part, broader European landscapes.

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