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Notes from building on emdash CMS. Plugins, deployments, gotchas, and what we learned.

Five Minutes to Analytics: PostHog, Cookieless Tracking, and an AI That Can Read Its Own Traffic

From PostHog sign-up to live traffic data in Claude Code's MCP: under five minutes. Cookieless tracking, no consent banners, and an AI that can read its own analytics.
Enabling Blog Comments in emdash

emdash ships with a full comments backend. We enabled it, built a frontend component, and had threaded, moderated comments live in under an hour.
Building an Email Provider Plugin for emdash

We built a Postmark email provider plugin for emdash, found a framework bug in the process, and documented the plugin system along the way.
Deploying emdash to Cloudflare: What We Learned

Getting emdash running on Cloudflare Workers: D1 databases, MCP content management, and the gotchas we hit deploying our first site.