Cherry is growing

August 14, 2026 · @holsee · meta

This site is built by Cherry itself: the example/ directory in the repository, compiled on every CI run so the framework can never drift from its own instructions.

A Cherry site is a directory with a config and some markdown:

# cherry.exs
[
  title: "CherryBomb",
  url: "https://cherrybomb.dev",
  description: "Cherry is a static site generator for hackers."
]

Posts are files whose names carry their date and slug, with typed frontmatter checked at build time:

content/posts/2026-08-14-cherry-is-growing.md

Everything else (feeds, sitemaps, canonical URLs, the theme) is default-on. Delete this post and the site still validates; that is the point.