Nathan Pickard

@nathanpickard.bsky.social

Software Engineer - Crafting software with #JavaScript, #TypeScript, #Angular, #AWS, #React Sharing quality software engineering resources, tips/tricks, news, and insights! nathanpickard.com

Deciding which frontend framework to use for your next project? Check out Stack Match! Compare performance, maintainability, scalability, and a ton of other metrics across all the major frontend JS frameworks. Super handy and insightful! stack-match.as93.net #javascript

Stack Match - Find Your Perfect Frontend Framework

Interactive tool to compare 18+ frontend frameworks. Analyze React, Vue, Angular, Svelte and more with performance metrics, bundle sizes, and customizable scoring.

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Portland families leave $10k–$25k in public benefits unclaimed yearly. So at the #AIPortland Build Challenge #hackathon, I built an app to fix it! In seconds, it screens for 20 federal, state, county, & city programs. Check out "PDX Benefits Navigator": pdx-benefits-navigator.vercel.app

PDX Benefits Navigator — Find what you're owed

A friendly Portland-built navigator for federal, Oregon, Multnomah County, and City of Portland benefits. Three minutes, no login, nothing stored.

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Great blog post on @frontendmasters.com from @chriscoyier.net - What to Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition) Covers everything from the latest in ECMAScript to Meta Frameworks. Definitely worth checking out to stay up to date on the #JavaScript ecosystem in 2026! frontendmasters.com/blog/what-to...

What To Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition)

An overview of what's new in language features, frameworks, runtimes, build tools, testing, and more.

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Learned a lot about the Kiro IDE and CLI at the Portland #AWS User Group meetup last night! An awesome agentic AI-powered IDE with spec-driven development and 'Powers' that give agents dynamic context loading beyond traditional MCPs. Try it a try and see how it can improve your workflow! kiro.dev

Kiro: Agentic AI development from prototype to production

Kiro helps you do your best work by bringing structure to AI coding with spec-driven development.

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Had a great time at the Silicon Forest Tech Summit this past weekend! Tons of great speakers from all corners of the industry, interesting demos, and insightful chats with attendees. I encourage everyone to attend and take part of local meetups and conferences whenever they can!

Silicon Forest Tech Summit - 2026

Excited to go to the Silicon Forest Tech Summit tomorrow! Should be quite an insightful event to learn more about the latest #tech news and innovation happening in the Pacific Northwest and beyond! Not to mention connecting with community and industry leaders! www.steamcircuit.com/events/61b8c...

STEAM Circuit

Join thousands of innovators, developers, and visionaries for the most anticipated tech events of 2026. Experience cutting-edge technologies, network with industry leaders, and shape the future togeth...

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Curious which #JavaScript projects/tools/libraries had the most added stars on #GitHub in the past year? ⭐ Look no further than 2025's JavaScript Rising Stars! Nice to see the actual tools for web-based engineering being highlighted! Not just another AI focused project! risingstars.js.org/2025/en

2025 JavaScript Rising Stars

A complete overview of the JavaScript landscape in 2025: trends about frontend, fullstack and Node.js frameworks, React and Vue.js ecosystems, build tools, state management...

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This post from @terriblesoftware.org does a great job of discussing what actually makes a senior software engineer "senior". Asking the question of "What problem are we actually trying to solve?" is something I've done quite a bit myself so far in my career 🤔 terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/w...

What Actually Makes You Senior

The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry

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The folks at @FrontendMasters have an excellent resource for all things front end related, The Front End Developer Handbook! Everything from foundational concepts to advanced engineering topics, this #opensource handbook has it all! 📘 #javascript #webdev https://t.co/gODCSl4KsD

The Front End Developer/Engineer Handbook 2024

The handbook provides an in-depth overview of the skills, tools, and technologies necessary to excel as a front-end developer / engineer.

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Using the browser's DevTools is a big part of #webdevelopment and using the right tools can seriously boost your daily development productivity! Check out this article from @smashingmag with awesome DevTools tips you should know! https://t.co/X6f4Lkr03t 🔧🔨 #100DaysOfCode

Useful DevTools Tips and Tricks — Smashing Magazine

Let’s discover the most popular DevTools tips that can boost your productivity and revolutionize your debugging workflow.

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"The ReadME Project" from @github has tons of high quality articles that feature some of the most prominent voices in the developer and open source communities! Recommended for those looking for their next thoughtfully written tech read! ✍️ #100DaysOfCode https://github.com/readme

The ReadME Project

The ReadME Project amplifies the voices of the open source community: the maintainers, developers, and teams whose contributions move the world forward every day.

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