VisionLighter Blog
The VisionLighter Blog is a space where technology meets strategy — created for those who want to stay sharp in an ever-evolving digital world. Whether you’re a business owner, a fellow developer, or simply curious about how things work under the hood, the blog explores the intersection of cybersecurity, web development, information technology, AI-driven content, and digital marketing in a way that’s both insightful and easy to follow.
With a strong foundation in hands-on consulting, Sean shares practical knowledge from real-world projects, tackling topics like securing your website from threats, building more maintainable codebases, leveraging AI tools to streamline content creation, and making smart marketing decisions that actually get results. The blog isn’t just theory — it’s actionable insight informed by years of experience in the trenches.
As AI tools reshape how we create and communicate online, VisionLighter also explores how to ethically and effectively integrate AI into content strategies, development workflows, and IT infrastructure. Expect honest takes, helpful walkthroughs, and content aimed at helping readers make smarter tech decisions — whether they’re just getting started or scaling up.
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5 Security Conscious Toolkits and OSes
5 Security Conscious Operating Systems and Toolkits Have you ever wanted to make a quick cybersecurity lab that can handle a wide variety of tasks? Did you only want to do it with a few virtual machines? Well, you've come to the right blog article. I'll share with you some tools that I frequently use to improve my operational capacity as a cybersecurity / software development concious person. Whether it's malware analysis, reverse-engineering, penetration testing, or just surfing the internet in some questionable places; these tools are for you. So lets dive into Flare-VM, REMnux, Kali Linux, Proxmox,...
jFind – A Regular Expression and Hexadecimal Data Search Tool
jFind - A Regular Expression and Hexadecimal Data Search Tool https://github.com/seanlum/jFind A collection of knowledge on cyber threat intelligence, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps jFind - A Java-based CLi file/directory regular expression search tool. This program is a little bit like egrep, but uses Java PCRE regular expressions to search for content. You can also search for content with hex strings. There have been thoughts about adding regular expression hex pattern searching, but the ethics for such a tool may be very gray. This tool is intended to be used in the information technology field, primarily in software development...
What is Frontend Web Development?
What is Frontend Web Development? Web Design and Development; much less full stack development has a multitude of facets within the sphere of the Internet. There are static technologies, interactive technologies, databases, networking, APIs, and so much more. But first let us start from the very beginning with the web browser experience; the frontend. The frontend presents the user interface and provides an interactive graphic layer upon which the user can interact with the application. The frontend passes data to the backend so it may be processed and stored for later use. There are a wide variety of...
Things to Come!
Things to come at VisionLighter! Sorry I've been away for so long! It has been a few years, and the site's SSL even lapsed since the last post. More posts will start showing up here soon. Hopefully once a week, a post about an IT topic will be made here. The site may also be getting updates on its appearance and provided pages. It is a new year, and there are many new exciting topics to talk about. Cybersecurity is evolving on a constant basis. The standards, tactics, policies, procedures, and other solutions we use and provide are...
Writing Linux and UNIX Software? Check out these books.
Linux and UNIX are a lot of fun I've been compiling software for over a decade. The earliest Linux kernel I have ever supported was a whopping version 1.6. And over the years my systems have given use to well over 20 distributions. From Slitaz and Grey Cat, through Puppy, Mandriva, Tiny Core, and all the way to Red Hat and Fedora. Linux has so much to offer; anything involving data and you will likely find some project using it. Over the years, there are a few books I keep coming back to. There are also new books which...
First Blog Post
First Blog Post This blog post is here to set the general tone for upcoming posts, and explain why the blog is here. This blog is for technology, tutorials, tools, and possibly security-related news. I've been around technology work for about half of my life now, and its good to have information to go to. Topics will range from Web Design and Development to Cybersecurity and PC Technical Support. Currently, there is no projected release cycle planned for blog posts. But I will try to make posts regularly. Lately my tech projects at home include AWS, Azure, Windows...