GIT Usage History

The oldest git commits pushed up and signed by daqhris date back to February 2016. They may be seen as the remnants of an extracurricular passion that infused an innovative spirit into a student’s life in the East. A lifestyle sponsored by an undergraduate scholarship, split between on-campus or off-campus landmarks, spent crossing over the Great Firewall of China, and bypassing man-made virtual walls through private tunnels to wave hello to the world.

Much earlier fragments of his public code contributions were likely archived inside the GitHub-sponsored Arctic Code Vault in February 2020, among notable human-crafted software artifacts, for over a thousand years.

Looking way back, an initial foray into a central hub of GIT repositories in May 2011, at the age of nineteen in Bujumbura, Burundi, seems comparable to planting a seed of innovation in the fertile soil of a burgeoning digital platform.

Screenshot of 1st activity, as Git user and contributor, time-stamped to 2011

That seed has since blossomed into a time-stamped nomadic odyssey — rooted in cyberspace, sustained by a wandering slender figure, and grounded on Belgian soil — awalkaday.art.

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