Samuel Lison

The Spore Trail - Photography & Hiking Journal, HUB, and my Internet Identity

Welcome to The Spore Trail

Samuel Lison

Samuel Lison

Welcome — this is my personal space on the web.

I’m Samuel Lison, based in Melbourne, Australia. I created this site as a place to gather my thoughts, photography, writing, and projects into one self-owned and self-hosted home online.

This isn’t a portfolio or a feed designed for algorithms. It’s simply a space where I can share ideas, observations, and creative work at my own pace — without pressure to perform or produce.

You’ll find a mix of photography, notes, reflections, and occasional updates on things I’m building or exploring, including SL Colonies and time spent outdoors with a camera. I also share field recordings captured while hiking.

Thanks for stopping by. If something here sparks a thoughtful conversation, that’s always welcome.

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  • I’m taking a course on with 160+ hours of content. I want to help more in our indie game. As the visionary, I’ve directed and ideated, but joining in can speed up our process for players!

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  • I made my own sound effects and coded a health and energy HUD that has a special effect on exhaustion. Check it out youtu.be/xTTX2I0yE… - I haven’t even started building the world yet.

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  • Small update. I’ve been deep in code learning and now playing around with as I learn more. AI has been handy in that instead of asking it to “spit out code” - I prompt it to act as a mentor and teacher, guiding me where to “look” prior to giving me examples if I ask for help.

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  • I signed up to to take on their and courses.

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  • I learned recently that is taking on the or in their case the language. Now is the best opportunity for me to dig in and teach myself coding and in particular, in this language so that I can help improve on , my pet project.

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  • Weekly Recap - Week 51

    This week is mostly about my passion project known as SL Colonies, which is a full RPG world building kit within Second Life.

    We have a small, but active community within this project that enjoy using our system to create RPG worlds with farming, gathering, hunting, crafting, quest making and more. Enjoy the read! I know it’s been a while!

    Discourse Updates

    I run a community within Second Life that is known as SL Colonies. With this community comes the need for a place to store all our knowledge, questions, answers and communication.

    We also use Discord. But what I have found over the years is …

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  • I’m going to try out the Documentation plugin for . Our community has outgrown wiki’s of one page with tables of hundreds of game recipes that cannot be searched by our players. Time to have everything indexed and searchable properly I think.

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  • And now I also made it so that our welcome banner also changes on seasons and holidays. A living skin!

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  • Made a little javascript on our banner that rotates the sub-header based on if you are logged in or anonymous. Logged in user subheading will rotate on a daily basis - forum.slcolonies.com, check it out. I also added little tag icons for fun.

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  • I’ve been doing 30 minutes of every day, with about 100 and . But with my cardio health up, wasn’t pushing beyond 140bpm. Throw in claps in the pushups, and I peaked at the 170 range - woohoo! Progress.

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