Participating in a Twitter Space event about open source contributions highlighted that contributing to open-source projects extends beyond coding, as assisting with documentation and providing detailed bug reports are equally valuable. The process of debugging a whiteboarding app, Excalidraw, using the Replay tool, offered an illustrative example of how to effectively contribute without writing new code. By recording a bug where elements locked up after being resized to zero and sharing it with the team, the issue became reproducible and easier to address. The debugging process involved using tools like React DevTools and conditional logging to identify the source of the problem, which was a division by zero error causing the application to break. This approach demonstrated that offering reproducible examples and detailed context to maintainers can significantly aid in resolving issues, underscoring the importance of various non-coding contributions to open-source projects. Replay, a tool facilitating these contributions, offers free plans for open-source projects to enhance issue resolution and testing.