The journey in numbers

Every number about the journey lives here, once, with its date. Other pages cite this one rather than restating a figure.

The headline numbers

Sources: the GitHub profile¹, the repository list² and the connector probe³.

Repositories by year

Original repositories only, by the year they were created.²

The private share is the shape of the journey in one column: nothing private while learning, then more than half of every year's work private from 2024 on, which is what client work looks like from the outside.

How the counts are made

• The repository list is the GitHub search user:rrizwan98, which returns repositories owned by the account and excludes forks unless asked; forks were counted with a second search (fork:only).
• A repository is placed in the year it was created, not the year it was last pushed.
• Private repositories are counted and never named.
• Repositories that belong to a company's own GitHub organisation are not owned by this account and are not counted.
• A connector counts as live when its MCP endpoint answers an initialize request with HTTP 200 at the time of the probe. Two other hosts were probed and answered 404; they are not counted.

What is deliberately not counted

Commits, lines of code, stars and contribution streaks. They are easy to read off GitHub and easy to game, and none of them says whether a system was delivered and used.

Footnotes

1. GitHub API, profile of rrizwan98, read 26 August 2026: created 2020-09-19, public_repos 94, followers 62. ↩

2. GitHub API, repositories owned by rrizwan98, read 26 August 2026: 111 original repositories (75 public, 36 private) and 19 forks. ↩ ↩²

3. MCP initialize probe, 26 August 2026 19:36 UTC: nine endpoints HTTP 200, two further hosts HTTP 404. ↩