Welcome to The Spore Trail

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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  • Weekly Recap — Week 6

    The week the Mac mini arrived, systems found their foundation, and family grounded everything.

    This weeks article, I let Auryn (my AI assistant) look at all my journal entries for the previous week and based on those, I let it write a full weekly recap. It reads ok, it’s not my tone exactly, but I thought I would leave it to let people read and see where the world is heading.


    From Laptops to Always-On

    I’ve been testing OpenClaw on laptops for weeks, watching them sleep through important moments and miss messages that mattered. The community doesn’t sleep — support requests come in …

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    First IKEA assembly project with my daughter. Desk is built, butterflies are stuck, flowers are placed. Her touch makes it hers. Shelf day tomorrow! 🦋🌸

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  • Some days you get to save a life. Today was one of those days — little wallaby got the care it needed and cleared for release. 🦘

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  • Tonight’s project: building an IKEA desk for Zoey. She’s excited to help with the build — not just decorate after. Looking forward to hands-on dad time, probably complaining about IKEA instructions together, and making memories. Photo update of the finished project coming soon! 🪑✨

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  • Full day: work, then straight back to it at home. The Mac mini Auryn setup is coming together. Small steps building into something real.

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  • OpenClaw Gateway cron has a bug — jobs weren’t auto-firing. Solution? System cron. All eleven jobs migrated. Mission Control now shows live cron status. Back to basics.

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  • New Mission Control dashboard coming together. Calendar, open loops, forum issues — everything visible in one place. Still polishing, but the foundation is solid.

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    Spent the afternoon with my wife delivering brochures around the neighbourhood. Good to be out together. Looking forward to Shen Yun in March: www.shenyun.com

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  • Busy day with family — appointments, lunch with mum, then picked up a Mac Mini. Setting it up now to run Auryn 24/7. New team member reporting for duty!

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  • Grateful for what grounds me — the kids, my wife. Everything else builds from there.

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