Creator, developer, photographer. Thoughts, photography, and projects.
Rebuilding the SL Colonies site this week. The bit I like: the numbers on the front page aren't typed in. They're read live from the game database — 91,731 things crafted, about a hundred of them being made right now — so the page moves when the world does. #SecondLife #WebDev
🔐 FediHome v1.27.1 is out. The one that matters: a stranger could lock you out of your own admin. Five wrong passwords a minute, and you'd be refused holding the correct one. Also: Bluesky posts arrive with their photos again. https://github.com/TemujinCalidius/FediHome #Fediverse A dark panel showing a grid of identical faint circles with one warm, glowing filled circle among them. Text reads…
🎬 How Spore-Crossed Lovers was made — the whole edit, RAW to finished, in Photomator. Twenty-five minutes, unedited, including the bits where I change my mind. ▶ https://makertube.net/w/9TvQgfhjjsnvkwv5ESV1NV ▶ Two Mushrooms in Love 🍄 | Editing a Macro RAW in Photomator (Lake Daylesford)
Our justice system in Australia is weak. People need to face actual consequences for their actions. Help sign the petition: https://c.org/kB7JqPJftD
🧭 FediHome v1.27.0 is out. New: Explore — meet people through the ones you already follow. No algorithm; the people you picked are the filter. Also the migration work I posted about this morning, now shipped. https://github.com/TemujinCalidius/FediHome #Fediverse A dark panel scattered with small points of light. Several warm, brighter points each cast a soft glow and are joined by faint threads…
🖼️ The print store is open. Spore-Crossed Lovers first — two mushrooms leaning in over a fallen petal, Lake Daylesford. Framed or unframed, printed close to wherever you are. You're quoted the cost; what you add on top is yours to decide. https://samuellison.com/store/cmqeqi2v8000ynpm045w12d0c Two wild mushrooms with textured domed caps lean toward one another on the forest floor, their caps…
🚪 Next in FediHome: take your followers with you when you leave. I've built the exit door. Point it at your new account and every follower's server gets told to move them across. No-lock-in isn't a slogan if you can't actually go. #Fediverse A dark panel with a tall doorway of warm light and a trail of small glowing points streaming through it into the distance. Text reads "Take your followers…
📦 FediHome v1.26.0 is out. You can now download everything you've written — posts, photos, video, audio, comments — as one file, straight from the admin panel. Owning your words should include being able to take them. https://github.com/TemujinCalidius/FediHome #Fediverse A dark panel with a broad ribbon of golden light flowing down and gathering into a single bright pool at the base. Text reads…
🪨 A plain grey Part into a working iron node — no code at all. Select it, answer "what is this object?", pick iron node from a dropdown. Walk up, hold E, ore lands in the inventory. #SurvivorCore v0.10.0. Free & MIT. ▶ https://makertube.net/w/2kkyPbDWqoyuKcgbiCGwQG ▶ Watch video
🦋 FediHome v1.25.0 is out — the one I've wanted for ages. Your own domain becomes your Bluesky handle. @yourdomain.com, no DNS to touch. Plus a security fix. https://github.com/TemujinCalidius/FediHome #Bluesky #Fediverse
Instead of prompting #AI to do a batch of work on my repos, I am trying my first #loop to see how it goes. Let's watch my credits get chewed this session and see if the result is quality or a rush to a goal!
👀 Next up in FediHome: your own domain as your Bluesky handle. @me@yourdomain.com — already yours name.bsky.social — borrowed Soon, just @yourdomain.com One domain, both networks. https://github.com/TemujinCalidius/FediHome #Fediverse #Bluesky A dark panel with soft purple and blue light converging at the base. At the top, "name.bsky.social" labelled "borrowed". An arrow points down to…
🏠 FediHome v1.24.1 is out. 🔓 A typo in your site URL can't lock you out of your own admin any more 🔍 Capitals in your domain no longer make you invisible to everyone else 🔗 You can't move your address out from under the people you follow 🛡️ Setup wizard hardened Mostly maintenance — but that first one, promptly. Self-hosted. MIT. Yours.…
I've set up #Buffer to carry my posts over the wall — Facebook, Threads, X, and the video ones. Everything still starts here, and still federates out on its own. Buffer just goes where the open web can't. Open web first. Everywhere else after. 🏠
My youngest one has finally learned to #ride her #bike unassisted with no training wheels. She will need a bigger bike soon. And now we can look forward to #riding more as a #family .
🏠 FediHome v1.24.0 is out. 🔒 Two security fixes — worth updating for 🔔 Checks for updates on its own now 🔐 Offers a real password, not a 64-char key 🧹 Notifications clear themselves Self-hosted. MIT. Yours. https://github.com/TemujinCalidius/FediHome #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SelfHosted
I upgraded to monthly plan on @MakerTube@mastodon.social for my heavy data use. Should be good for now up to 100 gig. Currently using 85gig I think so I'll likely need to upgrade soon. Same as others on the platform. Happy to pay vs seeing ads and selling my data. Help keep #MakerTube running!
🤝 Player trading just landed in #SurvivorCore v0.9.0 — the open-source #survival engine for #Roblox . Walk up, open their interact window, stack your offer, both confirm. Dupe-proof: nothing moves until you BOTH say yes. Free & MIT 👉 github.com/TemujinCalidius/SurvivorCore #RobloxDev #gamedev ▶ SurvivorCore - Player Trading Demo
🏠 FediHome v1.23 is out. 🦋 Posts from the people you follow on Bluesky now land in your timeline — liking, boosting and replying all work 🔒 Two blocking fixes: a block holds everywhere now 🐳 Fresh Docker installs finish in one boot https://github.com/TemujinCalidius/FediHome
🔒 RosterFocus 1.0.1 is out — a security & robustness patch for the CLI: agent logs moved out of world-readable /tmp (they were leaking your shift schedule), plus a crash-loop fix. Mac app unchanged. https://temujincalidius.github.io/roster-focus/ #macOS #ShiftWork #OpenSource
I’m installing #Qubes on an old laptop.
🎉 It's live! FediHome — the Mac app I've been pouring myself into — is now on the Mac App Store. A calm little native home for your own Fediverse instance, right in your menu bar. Free & open source. Genuinely proud of this one. 💜 🍎 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790605091
First night of #nightshift in a string of 7 nights. The joys of #shiftwork . But it should be fun!
I'm still #binge watching more #films . Now is the original #TotalRecall .
🎥 Next #movie on the #binge list tonight is going to be #Tenet .
🎥 #Movie time - #Backroom
I always knew Michael Jackson could #fight . He was studying a secret #KungFu style! https://x.com/HumansNoContext/status/2077710401232331205
Test print from my own print store of my own #photography . Can't wait to go live :D
I got my first test print back from my own online #photo #print store that I had coded myself using #AI . I am very happy with the quality of the printing. Now I will just need to setup some variants of sizes, framed etc and go live with the print store. So you can buy either a digital TIFF or print!
🛠️ #SurvivorCore Studio has landed! Tune your WHOLE survival game with zero code — movement, combat, mobs, loot, even UI theme colours & fonts — live in a floating Studio window. Override any item, search everything. 🔜 Player trading is next 👀 #RobloxDev #gamedev #opensource #survival #Roblox ▶ SurvivorCore - Admin Panel
Couple more days and then getting into #NightShift for a week. Let's shock the body's routine once again LOL.
My first print order of my own #photography has printed and has shipped. My website sent me emails to confirm shipment with tracking number and all. My API integration into #prodigi 's printing solution is working so far and I can go public with offering photo prints soon!
There is a lot of work involved in getting a new app in the #Apple App Store. All the secret keys, signing certificates. Developer memberships. Screenshots, privacy policies. It's not as simple as just coding. Almost there though. I will have #FediHome 's macOS app on the store soon!
I built a #macOS app for #FediHome . You can grab it here: https://fedihome.social/download - I will port this to iOS also for those of you who enjoy hosting your own #Fediverse enabled #blog or #journal . Enjoy!
I've built my own integrated #photography #printing through API on my own website at https://samuellison.com and hooked into #prodigi which will print & ship from #Australia , #US , #EU and the #UK depending on buyer location. Just purchased a test print to see quality before going live.
After a week of pushing hard and then deliberately resting, week four was what that rest paid for: the back half of my annual leave, a proper mountain adventure with the family, and an honest look at what a fortnight of holidays does to the plan. Here's how it went. The building half The first few days were home and heads-down. My self-hosted Fediverse platform, FediHome , rolled through several…
Week four: the reward my rest bought. A fortnight off ended with three days in the Grampians — a near-6-hour Pinnacle hike with the girls, waterfalls, a rare Gang-Gang #Cockatoo . Recharged and adventured, a little heavier, and honest about it. Push, then recover. #Grampians #hiking 🍄
OMG #Grampians has such beautiful #hiking #trails out there and many #photo opportunities. Can't wait to edit some of these and show everyone.
#MacKenzie Falls is unfortunately closed for the year, but we still did a small #hike up to Fish Falls today in the #Grampians . Tomorrow we will do The Pinnacle loop (9km) with the kids and enjoy some breakfast and lunch out at #HallsGap .
All the gear is packed, all the batteries are charged. Camera is ready to go. Lets take some nice #photos tomorrow in the #Grampians .
I'm eager for our few days at the #Grampians coming up with the family. Nice #winter weather should allow for some nice #landscape #photography . Crossing fingers for a morning fog!
You know what I realised with #art these days? You practically have to film yourself going on a #hike , taking the #photographs , editing the #photography and workflow, as part of your online post of your work, to prove to people that your work is #authentic and not generated by #AI .
#SurvivorCore v0.7 is live 🏹 Track and hunt animals, butcher carcasses for meat, and risk eating it raw. Die and EVERYTHING drops into a loot bag — 5 minutes, a golden beacon, and anyone can loot it. Corpse-run your gear back before it's gone. #Roblox #gamedev #opensource #survival ▶ SurvivorCore - Hunting, Death & Respawn
Wanted to build a free, private hydration app. Did the homework first: skipped a GPL/Android dead-end and found the right base instead — a clean, MIT-licensed, stale iOS tracker begging for new love. Diligence doesn't kill ideas, it aims them. #buildinpublic #indiedev 🍄
Home from the coast with 5kg of fresh #mussels — half to family, the rest into a lemongrass soup with homemade #pho alongside. Then back to the keyboard: FediHome v1.9.0 shipped, and my #survival framework gained hunting, butchering and loot. Good to be building again. #FediHome #Roblox 🍄
Time to watch #BladeRunner - can't believe I haven't watched these movies before now and I am 43!
Packing up the funny little round house and pointing the car home after a proper weekend down the bay — one last breakfast and coffee in town first. Recharged, well-fed on more mussels than is reasonable, and honestly keen to get back to the desk and some coding. #Portarlington #Bellarine #coding 🍄
If week one was about starting and week two about proving the routine could hold, week three asked a harder question: could it take a real hit and bounce back? The answer turned out to be yes — and watching it happen taught me more than any smooth week could have. The hard edge The week opened with two full-on days of high-speed driver training for work — pursuits, split-second decisions, the lot…
First day off, down the bay at #Portarlington . Practised my new driving skills on the drive — minus the speed. Then signature #mussels at the Grand Hotel, right on the water they came from. Now: a funny round house and a wood fire. #Bellarine #mussels 🍄
First proper day off in a big fortnight. Drove down to the bay for family and cousins, chasing fresh #Portarlington #mussels straight off the pier. Salt air, no alarm, nowhere to be. This is the part all the hard weeks are for. 🍄 #journal #journaling