Add posts to plants and fungi

Cargo.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "mycelial_technology"
 version = "0.1.0"
-authors = ["glyph <gnomad@cryptolab.net>"]
+authors = ["glyph <glyph@mycelial.technology>"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

src/main.rs

@@ -115,6 +115,15 @@ fn plants() -> Template {
     Template::render("plants", &context)
 }
 
+#[get("/plants/blueberry-dance")]
+fn plants_blueberry_dance() -> Template {
+    let context = FlashContext {
+        flash_name: None,
+        flash_msg: None,
+    };
+    Template::render("plants/blueberry_dance", &context)
+}
+
 #[get("/plants/potato-tech")]
 fn plants_potato_tech() -> Template {
     let context = FlashContext {
@@ -177,6 +186,7 @@ fn main() {
                 home,
                 lists,
                 plants,
+                plants_blueberry_dance,
                 plants_potato_tech,
                 meditation,
                 travel,

templates/background.html.tera

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 {% extends "nav" %}
 {% block content %}
+    <article>
       <h2>Background</h2>
       <p>I was born and raised in the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, which lies between the Indian Ocean and Drakensberg Mountains. Following completion of high school I moved to Michigan, USA and completed a Bachelor of Science in anthropology (major) and biology (minor) at <a href="https://www.gvsu.edu/">Grand Valley State University</a>. I later returned to South Africa and completed a Master of Social Science in social anthropology at the <a href="http://www.uct.ac.za/">University of Cape Town</a>, with <a href="https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/6795">research</a> focused on decentralised networks of medicinal plant harvesters and herbalists (Rasta bush doctors). I then went on to work as an applied anthropologist and ethnobotanist in the non-profit sector.</p>
       <p>Following a year spent travelling in South America, I restructured my life and livelihood around my core interests: carbon-based and silicon-based technologies (biology and computers). Since then I have founded <a href="https://harmonicmycology.com">Harmonic Mycology</a>, a mycology collective dedicated to developing and distributing mycelial medicines, teaching mushroom cultivation and encouraging the formation of humyn-fungal networks. In parallel to those activities, I have worked as an autodidactic software developer on private and open-source projects; most-recently, <a href="https://opencollective.com/peachcloud">PeachCloud</a>.</p>
       <p>I hold a deep fascination with the processes through which humyns form relationships with other living beings. When not behind the keyboard, you can find me looking at mushrooms, riding my bicycle or reading sci-fi. I'm dreaming of a three-month adventure across Japan ⛩.</p>
       <img src="glyph_laetiporus.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
+    </article>
+    <hr>
 {%- endblock %}

templates/base.html.tera

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
         color: #fff;
       }
       
+      article {
+        max-width: 700px;
+      }
+      
       body {
         max-width: 900px;
         font-family: monospace;
@@ -67,6 +71,10 @@
         color: #222;
       }
 
+      li {
+        padding-bottom: 0.5rem;
+      }
+      
       .list-item {
         list-style-type: none;
         padding: 0.5rem;
@@ -86,10 +94,6 @@
         padding: 0.5rem;
       }
 
-      .nav-item:hover {
-        background-color: #111;
-      }
-      
       .nav-item a {
         text-decoration: none;
       }

templates/fungi.html.tera

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
     <h2>Fungi</h2>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="/fungi/lichen-space">Lichens in Space</a> - <i>28 May, 2020</i></li>
-    </ul>
-    <ul>
       <li><a href="/fungi/grow-together">Grow Together</a> - <i>29 March, 2018</i></li>
     </ul>
     <hr>

templates/fungi/grow_together.html.tera

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {% extends "nav" %}
 {% block content %}
+    <article>
       <h2>Grow Together</h2>
       <i>29 March, 2018</i>
       <p>Yesterday, while pulling out dead lettuce stalks that had bolted, produced seed and died, I found a large mushroom attached to the roots of one of the plants (then another, and another)! I’m now less certain of my classification of the mushroom in the previous photo as a member of the Astraeus genus. I’ll have to do some investigating. If anyone here recognizes it, please let me know!</p>
@@ -18,5 +19,6 @@
         <img src="/fungi/earthstar_mycelium.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" />
         <figcaption>Makes me wonder how long these species have been dancing one another into being</figcaption>
       </figure>
+    </article>
     <hr>
 {%- endblock %}

templates/fungi/lichen_space.html.tera

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {% extends "nav" %}
 {% block content %}
+    <article>
       <h2>Lichens in Space</h2>
       <i>28 May, 2020</i>
       <figure>
@@ -32,5 +33,6 @@
       <p>So cool. Humyns have long dreamed of space colonies and interstellar journeys. Perhaps these dreams are genetic memories as much as simulated futures. Perhaps we have already surfed solar winds in peer-to-peer assemblages, crossing galaxies in holobiontic parties; expectant, hopeful, that Life might grow yet further.</p>
       <p>Here's a link to the full paper:</p>
       <p><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a8f6/a68e6db11f7b2bed133f434be742e1d4d390.pdf">Viability of the lichen Xanthoria elegans and its symbionts after 18 months of space exposure and simulated Mars conditions on the  ISS - Brandt et al. (2015)</a></p>
+    </article>
     <hr>
 {%- endblock %}

templates/home.html.tera

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
     <img src="glyph.svg" style="width: 175px;" />
     <p>Welcome to the personal website of glyph.</p>
     <h2>Contact Information</h2>
-    <hr>
     <ul style="padding: 0;">
       <li class="list-item">Email: <a href="mailto:glyph@mycelial.technology">glyph@mycelial.technology</a></li>
       <li class="list-item">Merveilles: <a href="https://merveilles.town/@glyph" title="@glyph@merveilles.town">@glyph</a></li>
       <li class="list-item" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Scuttlebutt: @HEqy940T6uB+T+d9Jaa58aNfRzLx9eRWqkZljBmnkmk=.ed25519</li>
     </ul>
+    <hr>
 {%- endblock %}

templates/plants.html.tera

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     <h2>Plants</h2>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="/plants/potato-tech">Potato Tech</a> - <i>31 December, 2017</i></li>
+      <li><a href="/plants/blueberry-dance">I Have Been Invited Into a Dance by a Bush with Purple Berries</a> - <i>20 December, 2017</i></li>
     </ul>
     <hr>
 {%- endblock %}

templates/plants/blueberry_dance.html.tera

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{% extends "nav" %}
+{% block content %}
+    <article>
+      <h2>I Have Been Invited Into a Dance by a Bush with Purple Berries</h2>
+      <i>20 December, 2017</i>
+      <figure>
+        <img src="/plants/blueberries.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" />
+        <figcaption>Hand-picked blueberry snacks are where it’s at</figcaption>
+      </figure>
+      <p>Today I thought about ripeness. How do you know when it’s just right? Well, it’s different for every plant I guess. With blueberries I’m learning to evaluate ripeness based on sight (colour of berry) and touch (firmness when gently squeezed). When I first started picking them, just two weeks ago, I only used my eyes and thus tended to pick unripe, tangy berries. Now I get 'em when they’re oh-so-sweet! In the last few days I’ve also started to notice the rate at which the berries ripen and can time my future visits more precisely.</p>
+      <p>The more time I spend with these plants, and the more patient I become, the more fully I come to appreciate their being. So this is then one way to form relationships (and sometimes friendships) with plants: visit them regularly, use all your senses to engage and be patient. I reckon the same approach might work with humyns ;)</p>
+      <p>If you ever hang out with herbalists around plants, you’ll probably find they’re very multi-sensory and active in their engagement. Smell the plant, taste it, rub it on your skin; all the more modalities to experience with. This is good to practice, just don’t go and eat all the poisonous stuff. Connecting with knowledgeable people is helpful: they can introduce you to some plants you might want to get to know better while also advising you to steer clear of some others.</p>
+      <p>On a somewhat related note: I’m making friends with The Jinj, a neighbourhood cat of the orange variety.</p>
+    </article>
+    <hr>
+{%- endblock %}

templates/plants/potato_tech.html.tera

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {% extends "nav" %}
 {% block content %}
+    <article>
       <h2>Potato Tech</h2>
       <i>31 December, 2017</i>
       <p>I shared lunch with some permaculture friends on Christmas day and they gifted me some of their seed potatoes. Today I planted them. Having seen how the plants thrived in my friend’s garden, and having learning more about potato diversity while I was in Peru, I’m excited to experience my first attempt growing them. As I do so, I extend the line of humyns who have woven relationships with this plant over thousands and thousands of years; an honour and a privilege.</p>
@@ -12,5 +13,6 @@
         <img src="/plants/potato_sprout.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" />
         <figcaption>The courageous potato perseveres in search of the light</figcaption>
       </figure>
+    </article>
     <hr>
 {%- endblock %}