What Is This Place?

SCREED is a document drop for things that don't fit neatly into a tweet, a Slack message, or a corporate memo. Long-form, opinionated, slightly unhinged. A digital zine rack. A samizdat server. A broadsheet nailed to the door of the internet.

The technology is deliberately simple. Static files built with Eleventy, deployed to Netlify, styled with vanilla CSS. No frameworks were harmed. The content is the point, not the plumbing.

Who's Behind It

I'm stonematt. Not a developer. Product guy, operations background. I've worked with creative founders, aggressive project managers, innovative architects, insidious QA teams, and salt-of-the-earth operations crews. I know what an amazing software development lifecycle actually looks like. I can read code. I understand architecture. I just don't usually write it.

How This Got Built

A friend had an in-the-weeds question about a DNS record. He came to me because I helped him set it up in 2001. Twenty-five years ago. The answer led to Netlify. I'd never used it. Maybe I could've read the docs, but it's more fun to go do.

I didn't want to type though. I was busy. So I opened a terminal, started Claude Code, and described what I wanted out loud via voice dictation. Claude asked questions. I answered. It started building. I kept talking. The CSS, the layouts, the security headers, the dark mode toggle, the RSS feed. All of it, built by voice.

95% of the keystrokes in this project belong to Claude, not to me. My job was describing what I wanted, making decisions, and reviewing the output. That's not laziness. It's a different job description.

The full story is in I Built This Site Without Typing.

The Rules

1. Say something worth reading. Life is short and screens are bright. Don't waste anyone's photons.
2. No corporate speak. If it sounds like it was written by a committee, it doesn't belong here.
3. Keep it SFW. Subversive, yes. Offensive, no.

"Sometimes you just violently face reality." — E.W. Looney, Brightlink

Ever forward.