Eric Duran

Moving my links to ejd.dev

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of owning your platform. Whether it’s through my sad attempt at blogging again or just making sure my digital footprint isn’t entirely dependent on a single social media company, I’ve tried to keep things under my own control when easily manageable.

For a bit, I had a standalone “link-in-bio” site at links.ejd.dev. I originally built this as a simple GitHub Pages and documented the process in an Instagram post and a TikTok. It worked well, but since I’ve been consolidating my site and moving everything over to Hugo, it felt like the right time to bring my links home to ejd.dev/links.

My Obsidian Daily Note Template

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So I recently came across the idea of keeping a dev journal. Funny enough, I’m not entirely sure how I’ve missed this concept all these years considering I’ve previously done all kinds of journaling - just never for work or dev. Since I’m also going on leave soon, I figured this might be a good way to track everything and hopefully use that as a good base for knowledge transfer sessions or at least something to help my team members while I’m gone.

Speaking at the Google Latinx Student Leadership Summit

Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Had an incredible time at the Google Latinx Student Leadership Summit in Austin, TX. Got to connect with some amazing Latinx students and talk about my journey in tech. This is just a quick TikTok recap of the Google Latinx Student Leadership Summit in Austin. These were some of the smartest students I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with and I can’t wait to see all their future accomplishments. We did a Dominican shoot at the end — all 6 of us. 😂

Own your words

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

While I’ve had this blog for years, I’ve only ever managed to post a few times. That being said with all the changes happening with social platforms, Twitter being the main culprit for now, it just feels like the right time to start blogging “again”.

Luckily I’ve learned that if you really want to do something, at least for me, I have to add it to the schedule. So in short, I’ve added blogging to my schedule.

My Content Creation Journey

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Over my 15+ years as a developer, I’ve always made it a point to mentor people and while doing so I found myself helping people overcome similar challenges. During the pandemic, I decided to start an Instagram account to mentor folks remotely whom I’ve never met before, and while that’s been great I realize it just wasn’t scalable.

So I quickly realized I should try and create more long-form content on platforms like YouTube. That being said, while I made the decision in 2020, it would be another 3 years before I published my initial youtube video. It’s difficult to explain the fear but I was a bit hesitant about YouTube. My biggest fear being the idea that someone might think I’m not as committed to my job as I am, or they think I’m trying to do this as my main job but at the end of the day, YouTube is the most efficient way to help folks in 2023.

Making time

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

So yesterday I started reading Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day to try and get myself out of this pattern of nothing I feel I’ve been in.

In the last couple of years a lot has changed in my life but I feel like time has been passing me by at hyperspeed and I haven’t really been able to accomplish all I wanted. To be fair, There’s been a lot of changes in my life but somehow I can’t seem to find time for what matters to me.

Speaking at the Inspired@ Summit

Sat, 25 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to speak at the Inspired@ Summit at Google’s NYC office. The event brought together 150 students to learn about Area 120, Google’s internal workshop for experimental products.

I spoke about imposter syndrome — something I’ve dealt with throughout my career. For a long time I tried to completely eliminate it, but I’ve learned that it honestly comes and goes. The more I challenge myself, the more I can feel it creeping back up. I’ve come to accept it as part of the process. If I’m feeling it, it usually means I’m growing and pushing myself somewhere new.

Adding JS Modules support to python simpleHTTPServer

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I’ve been playing a lot with JavaScript modules but every once in a while I start a web server using python SimpleHTTPServer from the command line while forgetting it doesn’t know how to serve .mjs files. I keep running into the following error:

Failed to load module script: The server responded with a non-JavaScript MIME type of "application/octet-stream".
Strict MIME type checking is enforced for module scripts per HTML spec.

This error makes perfect sense since python doesn’t know what the .mjs extension is and it uses the default mime type of application/octet-stream.

AngularJS HTML5 Mode with Yeoman

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

HTML5 Mode in AngularJS is awesome, you should use it. The one issue people run into is that you end up having a lot of 404 when a user tries to refresh at an unknown path.

This is mainly because your AngularJS routes aren’t actual html pages. An example would be if you have a route in your angular app to /create-order. This url works fine if you link to it from inside your app but if a user tries to go directly to that page the server will return a 404.

w00t a blog

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I finally got around to setting up one of these. I ended up deciding to just host it on github pages and not bother with a custom CNAME this way I literally have no maintenance to worry about.

Now the bigger issue is finding content to write about.

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