Posts from the drift-ui maintainers
How the registry gets made, and how to make your first open source contribution.
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7 posts
Gautam Anand5 min read
What goes into one drift-ui component
The trace waterfall installs as two files. Its pull request changed 16. A walk through each one, and the six bugs review caught before merge.Contributingdrift-uiRead the post
Gautam Anand5 min read
How we fixed the accessibility tree on drift-ui
Accessibilitydrift-uiLighthouse gave our home page 88 for Accessibility. What failed, how we fixed it across 74 component pages, and which numbers didn’t move.
Gautam Anand4 min read
A college student’s guide to open source
Open sourceStudentsA week-by-week plan that fits around classes and exams, plus student benefits, resume wording and the dates worth putting in your calendar.
Gautam Anand3 min read
How to use a coding agent on an open source issue
Coding agentsContributingWhat an agent can do on your contribution, what stays with you, and how drift-ui sets agents up with AGENTS.md.
Gautam Anand3 min read
What a maintainer checks in your first PR
Contributingdrift-uiThe 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.
Gautam Anand6 min read
What open source is and how to contribute
ContributingOpen sourceStudentsA 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.
Gautam Anand1 min read
Building drift-ui in the open
drift-uiOpen sourceHow an idea between two flatmates became an open source component registry, and why we want first-time contributors working on it.