Dispatches from the underground. A counterculture broadsheet.
SCREED is a broadsheet 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.
A friend had a question about a DNS record I helped him set up in 2001. The answer led to Netlify. I'd never used it. So I opened a terminal, started Claude Code, and described what I wanted out loud.
95% of the keystrokes in this project belong to Claude, not to me. I talked. It typed. I reviewed. That's not laziness. It's a different job description.
The full story: I Built This Site Without Typing
Requires Node.js 18+.
npm install
npm startDev server starts at http://localhost:8080 with live reload.
npm run build outputs the production site to _site/.
Drop a .md file in src/docs/ with this frontmatter:
---
title: "Your Title Here"
date: 2026-03-10
author: "Your Name or Handle"
description: "One punchy line for the index card."
---It picks up the doc layout automatically and shows up on the homepage. No CMS. No approval workflow. No meetings about meetings.
- Eleventy v3 for static site generation
- Nunjucks templates, Markdown content
- Vanilla CSS with custom properties for theming
- Dark mode default, light mode toggle
- Strict CSP security headers via Netlify
_headers - RSS feed included
- Say something worth reading. Life is short and screens are bright. Don't waste anyone's photons.
- No corporate speak. If it sounds like it was written by a committee, it doesn't belong here.
- Keep it SFW. Subversive, yes. Offensive, no.