Eric Duran is a Dominican American Software Engineer with 15+ years of industry experience. He works at Google as a Senior Software Engineer.

Eric has worked as a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Fortune 500 companies including NBC, LearnVest, NYSE, Comcast, Martha Stewart, and Northwestern Mutual, as well as agencies like Lullabot and institutions such as MIT & Pac-12.

My thoughts mostly around my journey in life, career, and learning.

tmux fish-shell blink-shell ssh

How my tmux resume script helps me quickly jump back into it on my phone

productivity work journal

Here’s the Obsidian Daily Note template I use as a dev journal, including a small Todoist integration to pull in my daily tasks

career grow

I had the opportunity to speak at the Google Latinx Student Leadership Summit in Austin, TX.

articles career grow

Just me trying to start blogging

content creation career

How I went from mentoring people one-on-one to starting a YouTube channel — and what took me three years to finally hit publish.

time books

Reflections on starting "Make Time" by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, and trying to reclaim time for what actually matters.

career grow

I spoke with students at Google's NYC office about imposter syndrome and how I've dealt with it throughout my career.

javascript python

How to fix the "non-JavaScript MIME type" error when serving .mjs files with Python's SimpleHTTPServer by adding a custom mime.types file.

angularjs javascript html5

How to enable AngularJS HTML5 mode with Yeoman without getting 404s on page refresh, using connect-modrewrite middleware or Apache .htaccess rules.

The very first post on this blog — setting it up on GitHub Pages and figuring out what to write about.