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Websites and systems, built around people.

I’m Evan McKnight. I build websites, connect systems, and help people make everyday work easier. Based in Escanaba, Michigan.

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Websites

Connected systems

Creative tools

Detail of the illustrated server cabinet and connected equipment.

A practical kind of curiosity

Community work shapes the way I build.

I manage in-home services at MDSCAA and build websites, creative tools, and the systems behind them.

Meet Evan

Part of my worldSelected projects

906Online 906.sh Fiend WARDOGS.LOL

Websites, creative tools, and online communities.

How I work

The website is only part of the picture.

The useful work happens where design, systems, and everyday life connect.

Websites

Make the front door work.

Websites, publishing systems, and the editing experience behind them.

Systems

Connect what sits behind it.

Hosting, identity, networks, backups, and the practical work of keeping tools connected.

Automation

Give repeat work a better path.

Scripts and integrations that make routine work simpler and useful information easier to reach.

People

Keep the human in the loop.

Clear communication, program coordination, documentation, and approachable technical help.

A few things I’m building.

906Online public website, captured October 25, 2026

Websites & digital operations

A home for the next idea.

Websites, hosting, digital operations, and creative tools. My work connects the public experience with the systems that keep it useful.

Product direction, development & operations

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The person behind the work

Curiosity brought me here. People keep it useful.

Game modding led me into websites, hosting, and online communities. Today, that work runs alongside my career in community services.

I’ve worked in restaurants, sports writing, publishing, reception, and program management. Clear communication and practical help connect all of it.

The longer story

MDSCAA2024–present

In Home Services Program Manager

Joined in reception in 2024; moved into program management in April 2025. I manage personal aides providing services that help seniors remain in their homes.

Catholic Social Services2023–2024

Intake and reception

Client communication, intake support, and front desk coordination.

Daily Press2021–2023

Sports writing, editorial, and business operations

Sports writing and editorial work alongside classified and inside sales, accounting support, and front desk operations.

906.sh2025–present

Founder and operator

A not-for-profit community initiative helping people across the local 906 with technology and tech-related questions.

Self-employed2020–present

Business IT and SaaS consultation

Independent work with websites, business tools, hosting, and connected systems.

Freelance2016–2019

Web development and marketing

Work with WordPress, Laravel, search optimization, digital marketing, and the customer-facing tools that support a small business.

In the kitchen. Behind the counter.

Cooking, prep, deliveries, and helping run a restaurant.

Crispigna’s Italian RestaurantMay 2019–Mar 2020

Kitchen Helper / Cook

Escanaba, Michigan

Kitchen support and cooking in a local Italian restaurant.

Wildcatz GrillSep 2015–Jun 2016

Cook / Prep

Tioga, North Dakota

Cooking and prep, with direct customer interaction and feedback.

42 GrillFeb–Aug 2015

Main Cook

Tioga, North Dakota

Maintained the cooking area, back room, and inventory, with front-of-house customer service during quieter hours.

Jade Garden Chinese RestaurantJul–Oct 2014

Cook and Delivery Driver

Escanaba, Michigan

Cooking and delivery work at Jade Garden.

Ramido’sSep 2011–May 2014

Assistant Manager

Escanaba, Michigan

Helped run day-to-day restaurant operations and train new staff.

The full background

Community services, publishing, hospitality, and independent technology work.

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Your next chapter

Tell me what’s next.

A project, a role, or a technology question. I’d like to hear what you’re working on.

Get in touch

A few things I’m building.

Local technology, creative tools, and communities. Different projects, connected by the same interest in making things work well together.

906Online public homepage, captured September 29, 2026

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Public website · September 29, 2026

My involvement: Product direction · development and operations
Project status: Public company website; service availability is discussed per project.

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906Online

Sister company · digital services

Local roots. Room for your next idea.

906Online is the sister company to 906.sh, bringing together websites, hosting, digital operations, and creative tools for businesses and organizations. It gives those projects a home of their own, alongside 906.sh’s community-focused tech help.

A home for the next idea

906Online brings website design and development together with domains, hosting, and the practical decisions behind a launch. The focus is a result that fits the organization, with clear ownership and a path to keeping it useful.

The work around the website

Digital operations include connecting tools, organizing access, simplifying repeatable tasks, and planning maintenance and recovery. Creative work has a place here too: 906 Story Studio offers an invitation-only workspace for scripts, footage, and team video editing.

Two names, distinct purposes

906Online and 906.sh share their Upper Peninsula roots. 906Online is the sister company for websites, digital operations, and creative tools. 906.sh is a separate not-for-profit community initiative, helping people across the local 906 with technology and tech-related questions.

906.sh public homepage, captured September 24, 2026

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Public website · September 24, 2026

My involvement: Founder · development and operations
Project status: Not-for-profit community initiative, with ongoing development and local tech help.

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906.sh

Not-for-profit community initiative

A local place to start with a tech question.

906.sh is a not-for-profit initiative helping people across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with technology and tech-related questions. It is a place to ask, learn, and find a practical next step—whether that means understanding a tool or untangling an everyday tech problem.

Start with the question

Technology can be confusing without a place to ask. 906.sh is a not-for-profit community initiative for the local 906, offering an approachable starting point for tech questions, practical guidance, and learning how things work.

Help that makes sense locally

My involvement spans the website and the systems supporting the initiative. The goal is to make useful knowledge easier to reach, explain the options clearly, and help people feel more comfortable with everyday technology.

Alongside 906Online

906Online is the sister company for websites, digital operations, and creative tools. The two share their Upper Peninsula roots, while 906.sh keeps its own community-help purpose. A local tech question is a welcome place to begin.

906 Story Studio demo workspace editor entry, captured September 25, 2026

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Demo workspace · September 25, 2026

My involvement: Product direction · cloud integration · operations
Project status: Hosted team studio, with access limited to approved accounts.

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906 Story Studio

Cloud creative tools · maintained Freecut fork

From a shared idea to a shared edit.

906 Story Studio is my heavily modified fork of Freecut, adapted for cloud hosting and team collaboration. It brings browser-based video editing together with shared footage, versioned scripts, and a private workspace for the people making the story.

An open-source editor, adapted for the cloud

Freecut provides the editing foundation. My fork adds the hosted workspace around it: persistent projects and media, resumable uploads, shared materials, and the connections between planning a story and editing it. Keeping the upstream history makes that foundation and the changes built on it clear.

Collaboration with clear ownership

Teammates can contribute footage, develop scripts, leave feedback, and work within owner, editor, contributor, or viewer roles. Saved scripts retain revisions and detect conflicting changes. A renewable editing lease gives one teammate control of the timeline at a time, providing a clear handoff between editors.

Access is part of the design

The studio connects to our forked and modified Logto identity service through OpenID Connect (OIDC). Sign-in uses Authorization Code with PKCE, while application admission, mandatory multi-factor authentication, and project membership checks control who can get in and what they can do. Private media, revocable access, session revalidation, and upload limits are built into the hosted workflow.

Fiend public homepage, captured September 24, 2026

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Public website · September 24, 2026

My involvement: Product direction · design review · collaborative development
Project status: Public creator site, with publishing and overlay studio development ongoing.

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Fiend

Creator tools · ongoing development

A creator’s public home—and the tools behind it.

I help shape Fiend, a creator website and studio with themed publishing tools, structured pages, and editable stream overlays. It brings the website and the tools behind a stream into one project.

One place to watch and connect

The public Fiend site brings together a featured video, creator information, channel links, and a Discord contact. Its cinematic visual identity carries across those sections. The featured YouTube player waits for a visitor to press play before loading, keeping that external interaction deliberate.

The editing experience matters too

Behind the public site, the project includes a Laravel and Filament publishing system with structured pages, subpages, shared media, and a visual page editor. Drafts and previews are separated from publication so the editing process has a clear path to a public result. These studio features are part of the project source; the screenshots here show the public creator site.

A consistent language for motion

My direction and design review connect the publishing experience with the stream-overlay editor: how layouts, themes, and motion behave in the editor and its preview. The goal is a coherent creative workflow. Development is ongoing, and a working editor preview is a separate milestone from an authenticated broadcast or provider integration.

WARDOGS.LOL public homepage, captured September 24, 2026

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Public website · September 24, 2026

My involvement: Product direction · design review · collaborative development
Project status: Public community homepage, with player and squad workflows under development.

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WARDOGS.LOL

Independent gaming community

From a good clip to people worth playing with.

I help shape WARDOGS.LOL, an independent gaming community built around creator clips, player discovery, and finding a squad. It connects my interest in games and online communities with the kind of web work I do today.

Give the community a useful next step

The public homepage puts watching clips, finding people, and bringing a Discord community close together. Those actions reflect the project’s direction: help a visitor move from discovering a highlight to finding people to play with. Community dispatches provide another way to publish updates.

Different ways to belong

The product distinguishes a temporary squad or looking-for-group session from a lasting clan. Project source and planning cover clan discovery, recruitment, rosters, player profiles, and member handoffs. That distinction matters: finding people for tonight and building a regular crew are related needs with different workflows.

Build on what already works

The project uses Angular and adapted open-source components alongside collaborative development. My involvement is in product direction, design review, and shaping how the parts connect. WARDOGS.LOL is an independent community project and is not affiliated with BULKHEAD or its WARDOGS game. The public homepage is shown here; community workflows continue to develop.

Have a project—or a role—in mind?

Tell me what you’re working on and where I could help.

Let’s talk

Websites and systems, built around people.

Community work shapes the way I build.

The website is only part of the picture.

Make the front door work.

Connect what sits behind it.

Give repeat work a better path.

Keep the human in the loop.

A few things I’m building.

A home for the next idea.

Local roots. Practical help.

A creator’s home, connected.

Curiosity brought me here. People keep it useful.

In Home Services Program Manager

Intake and reception

Sports writing, editorial, and business operations

Founder and operator

Business IT and SaaS consultation

Web development and marketing

In the kitchen. Behind the counter.

Kitchen Helper / Cook

Cook / Prep

Main Cook

Cook and Delivery Driver

Assistant Manager

The full background

Tell me what’s next.

Website preview

Colophon & media

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