Triaging open source with agents
How the Bootstrap maintainers use Claude Code agents to analyze issues and pull requests while they make every decision.
Design System Tech Lead · Bootstrap co-maintainer. Design systems and open source: creator of Open {re}Source and Advent of Open Source. RSS
How the Bootstrap maintainers use Claude Code agents to analyze issues and pull requests while they make every decision.
A technical deep dive: a conductor session paces Claude agents under written rules, and I get one question at a time. How it works, how to build yours.
Whether the EU Cyber Resilience Act concerns your project, and what it asks of maintainers and when.
Hacktoberfest in 2026: how to take part now that pull requests no longer count, and what twelve editions taught open source.
My website, tool docs, Storybooks, slides, READMEs and social accounts now share one identity. How a private branding repository, a written backlog and Claude as a design partner got it done on spare time.
Setting up Ollama with Obsidian for a writing assistant that runs offline, on your own notes.
What Bootstrap took away from the second round of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund.
Building LinkedIn carousels as code instead of drawing them slide by slide.
The funding field of 'package.json', and how it helps people support a project.
A GitHub Actions workflow that posts to Discord each time a repository gets a new star.
A Bluesky starter pack of accounts to follow about open source.
The ghost user on GitHub: who it stands for, and why it shows up in issues, discussions and pull requests.
contrib.rocks, a tool that draws the top contributors of a GitHub repository as one image.