About · the studio

One engineer, start to finish.

Moss Creek Digital is me, Buford Eeds, a software engineer in San Antonio. I take on a few projects at a time and do the work myself: the first call, the proposal, the code, the launch, and the hosting afterward. When you email the studio, you're emailing me.

Open notebook, field-notes aesthetic, dark coffee, field guide — a working desk

I build software the way a good carpenter builds cabinets.

I measure twice and use proven materials, so the result is easy to repair years from now, even by someone who didn't build it. I'd rather hand you a small thing that works than a large thing that doesn't.

Every project gets a written proposal, code and content you own outright, and someone on the other end of email who built the thing and can explain it in plain English. Nothing is rented from a page builder, and there's no contract you can't leave.

I'm based in San Antonio, Texas, and most of the work happens remotely. If you're nearby, I'm happy to meet at Merit for coffee.

— Buford

Six things I believe about this work.

01

You own the code & content.

Everything I build is yours. I can host it, or hand it to your team or another developer. There's no lock-in and no platform fee hidden in the price.

02

Solve the real problem.

Sometimes the answer is "you don't need a new website, you need this one form fixed." If that's the case, I'll tell you, even though it's a smaller job.

03

Plain English.

When something breaks, or a security scanner sends a scary email, you get an explanation you can follow without a glossary, along with what I've already done about it.

04

The person who quotes it builds it.

No account managers or handoffs, and nothing goes to an offshore subcontractor. The person you talk to on the first call is the one who writes the code.

05

Built to last years.

I use proven tools that will still be supported years from now, and I run them on servers I manage. Nothing breaks because a startup's free plan went away.

06

Launch is the start.

I stick around once the site is live. I host what I build, watch it, and keep it updated, so the site still works years after it goes live.

What I reach for.

Websites
Next.js, Astro, and Payload CMS. Fast on a phone, easy to edit.
Apps & tools
React and TypeScript on the front end. Node, Laravel, and Postgres behind it.
Payments
Card processing, receipts, and settlement. It's my day job.
Hosting
My own servers, running Docker and Caddy, with off-site backups and uptime monitoring.
Automation
Scheduled jobs, integrations, and AI where it actually saves time.
Design
Quick wireframes, then real pages in the browser. You see the actual thing early.
Background ·
Who you'd work with

From a design system to payment rails.

I came into software through Flatiron School in 2019 and started at CDK Global as an intern on their design system team, the shared library of buttons, forms, and screens used across their whole product suite. Three years later I was leading that team.

Today I'm a lead engineer at a payments company. I work across the whole platform, from the databases and backend services to the internal admin tools, the integrations with partners' systems, and the apps merchants use to take payments. Some of the work is unglamorous, like taking a slow page from 8 seconds down to under half a second, or picking up PHP from scratch because that's what the codebase needed.

Moss Creek Digital is where I bring that same care to businesses that would never hire an enterprise team, like a 40-year-old roller rink, a donut trailer, or a one-person insurance brokerage. When a project needs marketing help such as ads or local SEO, I bring in Casey, who has run digital marketing since 2017. Everything else is me.