Hi, I’m Sean.
Professionally, I’m a software engineer, system administrator, and network engineer. Personally, I’m someone who has spent most of his life taking computers apart, putting them back together, breaking Linux installs, fixing Linux installs, hosting services I probably had no business exposing to the internet, and finding new excuses to build something useful.
Like a lot of people who ended up in technology, this started long before it became a career. For me, it grew out of gaming, computers, LAN parties, and a long-running fascination with Linux and open source software.
I built websites back when America Online still offered web hosting, and I’m pretty sure I still have a copy of AOL Press tucked away somewhere. I ran multi-user shared hallucinations, or MUSHes, which were a MUD variant with hundreds of active players. I helped organize and run multi-day LAN parties with more than 200 people hauling towers, CRT monitors, network cables, and questionable sleep schedules into the same building. Eventually, that same momentum turned into BIOSLEVEL, one of the earlier Linux- and open source-focused review sites.
BIOSLEVEL is still around, even if it has been quieter than I’d like lately. Its focus remains Linux, open source software, hardware, and homelabbing. I still care deeply about that space, and there is more to say about BIOSLEVEL soon.
LinuxGnut exists because I needed a separate place for everything else.
Some of what shows up here will be more personal than BIOSLEVEL. Some of it will be technical. Some of it will be about my own projects, software, SaaS experiments, WordPress plugins, and whatever else I’m building, testing, fixing, or trying to convince myself is a good idea.
At its core, LinuxGnut is my personal hub: part workshop, part notebook, part product shelf, and part place to collect the things that do not quite fit anywhere else.
Stick around for a while and breathe it all in. Check out my products, poke through the projects, or head over to the services section if you need help with something WordPress, PHP, Linux, or infrastructure-related.