Posts from the drift-ui maintainers
How the registry gets made, and how to make your first open source contribution.
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Building drift-ui in the open
How an idea between two flatmates became an open source component registry, and why we want first-time contributors working on it.Read the post
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What open source is and how to contribute
A guide for students: what open source means, how a pull request works from fork to merge, and why Hacktoberfest stopped counting pull requests in 2026.
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What a maintainer checks in your first PR
The checks a pull request goes through on drift-ui, shown on a real one: the issue link, the scope, the tests and the known gaps.
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How to use a coding agent on an open source issue
What an agent can do on your contribution, what stays with you, and how drift-ui sets agents up with AGENTS.md.
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A college student’s guide to open source
A week-by-week plan that fits around classes and exams, plus student benefits, resume wording and the dates worth putting in your calendar.