Matt is an open source developer from the UK. After a brief career as a baker and pastry chef, he's spent over 25 years building for the web. He is currently a core maintainer of the Astro web framework, and is the creator and lead maintainer of EmDash. Matt was previously a Gatsby core maintainer, has contributed to most JavaScript web frameworks, and has a sideline selling the world's fastest LED camera flash.
[ENG] Ship, Automate, Extend: A Hands-On EmDash CMS Workshop
- Beyond WordPress: Building EmDash, a CMS for the Serverless and AI Era
In this two-hour workshop, you'll go from zero to a fully deployed, agent-powered CMS site, and learn how to extend it with your own plugins. We'll start by deploying an EmDash blog to production, covering configuration, content modeling, and the deployment pipeline. From there, we'll explore EmDash's agentic capabilities, using AI agents to configure and customize the site, and to generate, enrich, and manage content without manual busywork. Finally, we'll roll up our sleeves and build a custom plugin, covering the plugin lifecycle, APIs, and how to package and ship your extension.