Chris Manson is a Ember enthusiast and a member of the Ember Core Learning Team. empress-blog was an experimental project that came out of the work on converting the Ember Guides to be a static Ember application. empress-blog has since inspired the creation of Guidemaker and is a driving force for the evolution of the Ember static site ecosystem.
empress-blog is entirely open source so if you want to see how it works or if you would like to contribute please check out the git repository.