Love this. Gonna add it to a few of mine that are quasi abandoned because I'm too burned-out to wade back into them in any detail, per one of the categories described in the article.
This seems utterly delusional regarding the state of software engineering. In fact, you could almost build a mapping of billion dollar companies who's entire business model actively works against each one of them.
Location: Isle of Man/Europe
Remote: Yes - Experience working with US/International teams
Willing to relocate: Yes - For the right role. Happy to be on-site for onboarding
Technologies: Kotlin, Android, TypeScript, React, .NET, Java, CI/CD, Accessibility, i18n
Email: davidallisongithub@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/david-allison
Open source maintainer/top contributor of AnkiDroid: Android client for Anki. 10M+ downloads.
~10 YOE, with 6 YOE open source (4,000+ commits). Ready for stability after years of contracting and maintainership.
I lead a global volunteer team and take full product ownership: setting direction over multi-year horizons, planning and implementing architectural migrations, and keeping a project moving via community engagement, triage, fixes, reviews and mentorship.
Highlights:
- AnkiDroid now releases in tandem with upstream, rather than lagging behind by years
- Migrated a 15-year-old codebase from Java 7 to Kotlin, maintaining git blame
- Migrated to a common Rust-based backend. Android contributors are fully isolated from this complexity
- Improved app rating from 4.5 to ~4.8 stars, dramatically reduced crash rate
- Mentored hundreds of contributors and co-launched AnkiDroid's Google Summer of Code programme
AnkiDroid continues as a hobby; my day job is fully separate.
Looking for: full-time or contract. IC or EM, I'm nontraditional so I'm open to a conversation about which fits. Drawn to work that makes people's lives better, in any stack.
Something that was meant to remain secret made public, is not the same thing as whether something public is public.
If anything, this is a question of whether you owe royalties to the owner of IP you consumed in your life since it became part of and trained your mind, identity, and outputs too.
According to IP owners ever since things were digitized, you technically own nothing and simply paid for an authorization to use any given IP for the duration that the IP owner authorized you to use it and you continue to pay, so pay your monthly meat-AI bill to pay for all the IP your mind has been trained on.
- In your project's CLAUDE.md file, put "Read `docs/agents/handoff/*.md` for context."
Usage:
- Whenever you've finished a feature, done a coherent "thing", or otherwise want to document all the stuff that's in your current session, type /handoff. It'll generate a file named e.g. docs/agents/handoff/2026-03-30-001-whatever-you-did.md. It'll ask you if you like the name, and you can say "yes" or "yes, and make sure you go into detail about X" or whatever else you want the handoff to specifically include info about.
- Optionally, type "/rename 2026-03-23-001-whatever-you-did" into claude, followed by "/exit" and then "claude" to re-open a fresh session. (You can resume the previous session with "claude 2026-03-23-001-whatever-you-did". On the other hand, I've never actually needed to resume a previous session, so you could just ignore this step entirely; just /exit then type claude.)
Here's an example so you can see why I like the system. I was working on a little blockchain visualizer. At the end of the session I typed /handoff, and this was the result:
The filename convention stuff was just personal preference. You can tell it to store the docs however you want to. I just like date-prefixed names because it gives a nice history of what I've done. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5a79b929-49ee-461...
Try to do a /handoff before your conversation gets compacted, not after. The whole point is to be a permanent record of key decisions from your session. Claude's compaction theoretically preserves all of these details, so /handoff will still work after a compaction, but it might not be as detailed as it otherwise would have been.
Thanks! The last link is broken, though, or maybe you didn't mean to include it? Also, if you've never actually resumed a session, do you use these docs at some other time? Do you reference them when working on a related feature, or just keep them for keepsake to track what you've done and why?
Thank you. It was just a screenshot of my handoff directory. I originally tried to upload to imgur but got attacked by ads, then uploaded to github via “new issue” pasting. I thought such screenshots were stable, but looks like GitHub prunes those now.
It wasn’t anything important. I appreciate you pointing that out though.
I just keep old sessions for keepsake. No reason really. I thought maybe I’d want them for some reason but never did.
The docs are the important part. It helps me (and future sessions) understand old decisions.
Hardware will continue to improve, and eventually you'll have the choice of reaching a flow state with 2026 models, or using frontier models at our current level of performance.
In a sense, that is almost exactly the vision of the future shown in accellerando. User can and does send tons of specialized agents into the world. I am still not certain if I buy the premise of the article, but then my company is too cheap to let me play with Claude.
It still does. Feel free to use https://unmaintained.tech/ on your repo.
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