Hi, I'm Samuel 👋

I'm a maker based in Melbourne, Australia. By day I work frontline shifts in the public service; in the hours around them I build open-source tools for people who want to own their corner of the internet and make things on their own terms.

What I'm building

• FediHome — your own home on the Fediverse. Self-hosted publishing with native ActivityPub federation, so your posts live on infrastructure you control.
• SurvivorCore — SurvivorCore gives you the mechanics of a survival game — stats (energy/hunger/thirst…), inventory, crafting, cooking, harvesting, hostile mobs & combat, achievements, a codex, and player persistence — without dictating your content. You bring your own items, world, and art; the engine wires up the behavior.
• The Counter Earth — a crafting, gathering, and survival RPG in development for Roblox, with a persistent world and player-driven economy. Based off of my other project - SurvivorCor
• Roblox Grip Editor — a visual tool-grip editor for Roblox Studio that handles custom mesh avatars, R15, and R6 rigs.
• SolarShift — a cross-platform dynamic wallpaper that shifts with the sun and the seasons.
• RosterFocus — Turn iOS/macOS Focus modes on and off automatically from your shift calendar — no fixed schedule required.

Outside of code, I'm a nature photographer documenting fungi, landscapes, and local trails over at samuellison.com.

Why sponsor?

All of this is free and open. Sponsorship doesn't unlock a paywall — it buys time. Time to fix bugs, answer issues, write documentation, and keep these projects alive and improving instead of stalling between shifts.

If something I've made has been useful to you, a sponsorship of any size genuinely helps and means a lot.

Thank you for being here. 🌿