About

I'm Duane Morin, a full-stack software engineer and Shakespeare scholar based in Massachusetts.

I've spent over twenty years building software and writing about Shakespeare — not as separate careers that happen to coexist, but as two ways of thinking about the same things: structure, language, how systems work, and what makes something worth the audience's time.

Software

I'm a full-stack engineer with deep experience in Ruby on Rails, and more recently Next.js and Flutter. I've built web applications, mobile apps, and tools across a wide range of domains — from financial data to productivity to games. I care about building things that work, that last, and that real people actually want to use.

Shakespeare

I've been running Shakespeare Geek, the original Shakespeare blog, since 2005. The goal has always been to write about the plays for people who love them, not just study them — accessible, enthusiastic, and willing to argue. I've also written books, built Shakespeare-themed games and tools, and generally spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about Hamlet.

Both

Living in Massachusetts with my family, I spend my time building things in both worlds. The overlap turns out to be bigger than people expect: close reading and debugging are the same skill; an argument about Iago and an argument about software architecture follow the same logic. I stopped apologizing for the combination a long time ago.