https://highlandcloudforest.com/blog/Recent content in Blog on Highland Cloud Forest · Gabriele ZoppoliHugo -- gohugo.ioengabriele.zoppoli@unige.it (Gabriele Zoppoli)gabriele.zoppoli@unige.it (Gabriele Zoppoli)© 2026 Gabriele ZoppoliSat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://highlandcloudforest.com/blog/welcome/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000gabriele.zoppoli@unige.it (Gabriele Zoppoli)https://highlandcloudforest.com/blog/welcome/<p>This is the first post on the blog tab. It exists mostly to unlock the pattern — once one post is published, the listing page and the RSS feed spring to life, and the next post costs me a few minutes of markdown.</p> <h2 id="what-shows-up-here"> <a class="heading-anchor" href="#what-shows-up-here" aria-hidden="true">#</a> What shows up here </h2> <p>Short notes, mostly. Three rough categories:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Build logs</strong> — the terrarium hardware keeps evolving (a new sensor, a control loop tuned, a pump replaced). Worth recording the small changes, because after five failures I forget which.</li> <li><strong>Species observations</strong> — when a specific plant does something worth writing about: an <em>H. macdonaldae</em> that decides, after three years of refusing, to flower on a Tuesday in August; a <em>D. cuthbertsonii</em> that turns pink in November; roots changing colour from <code>doro-ne</code> to <code>rubii-ne</code> on an <em>Akausagi</em>.</li> <li><strong>The odd essay</strong> — where the day job and the plants overlap. Oncology has taught me a lot about how to keep delicate living things alive in hostile environments; the plants, in return, have taught me patience at the bedside. Both deserve writing about.</li> </ul> <h2 id="photos-in-posts"> <a class="heading-anchor" href="#photos-in-posts" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Photos in posts </h2> <p>Posts live as <strong>page bundles</strong> — a folder with an <code>index.md</code> and any photos dropped in alongside. You reference them with plain markdown, no paths, no fiddling:</p>