Hello

I am James Thomas Moon. 👋 I am a software engineer. 🤓 Most of my experience is within testing and tools. 👷

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• My Open-Source Work Samples
  • github Projects
  • Continuous Integration and Code Coverage
    • Azure Pipelines
    • CircleCI
    • codecov.io
    • Github Actions
    • Travis CI
  • StackExchange Questions and Answers
  • Bug Reports and Feature Requests
  • Pull Requests
  • github Forum Posts
  • Other Links
• Contributing to Open Source
• Recommended podcasts

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My Open-Source Work Samples

The following lists are pubicly available examples of my work:

github Projects

• jtmoon79/super-speedy-syslog-searcher
  Speedily search and merge log files by datetime.
• jtmoon79/si_trace_print
  stack indented trace printing; a small rust library to print messages indented to stack depth optionally preceded by the function name.
• jtmoon79/goto_http_redirect_server
  The "Go To" HTTP Redirect Server for sharing dynamic shortcut URLs on your network.
• jtmoon79/coverlovin2
  Add music album images to your music file directories.
• jtmoon79/PythonEmbed4Win
  Easily create a standalone Python embed.zip local environment in Windows.
• jtmoon79/openssh-latest-build-install.md
  Build, install, and run the latest OpenSSH Server as a systemd service.
• jtmoon79/wireguard-site-to-site.sh Wireguard Site to Site generator.
  jtmoon79/wireguard-client-to-site.sh Wireguard Client to Site generator.
• jtmoon79/dotfiles
  Putting the . in .
  Miscellaneous user dot files for consistent user shell environments. Also a place to store various small scripts for various tasks.

Continuous Integration and Code Coverage

I've used several Continuous Integration (CI) services for the sake of learning about them. Here are example runs of each.

The ^archived links are provided because most CI Service providers expire detailed records.

Azure Pipelines

• Azure Pipelines workflow ^archived for my project goto_http_redirect_server
• Azure Pipelines Code Coverage report ^archived for my project goto_http_redirect_server

CircleCI

• CircleCI workflow ^archived for my project CoverLovin2
• CircleCI workflow ^archived for my project goto_http_redirect_server

codecov.io

• codecov.io Code Coverage report ^archived for my project super-speedy-syslog-searcher
• codecov.io Code Coverage report ^archived for my project si_trace_print
• codecov.io Code Coverage report ^archived for my project CoverLovin2

Github Actions

• Github Actions workflow ^archived for project super-speedy-syslog-searcher
• Github Actions workflow ^archived for my project si_trace_print

Travis CI

• Travis CI workflow ^archived for my project CoverLovin2

StackExchange Questions and Answers

Some of my favorite StackExchange posts:

• How can I use journalctl to time-filter and view non-journal files? (Answer)
• DNS Server Search order in Windows 10 and VPNs (Question + Answer)
• What is the password for Windows 10 Sandbox Administrator? (Question + Answer)
• What is the list of python settings that affect encoding, decoding, and printing? (Question + Answer)
• Python Windows embeddable package fails to run "No module named pip" "The system cannot find the path specified: 'C:\python-3.9.6-embed-amd64\DLLs'" (Question + Answer)
• rustdoc force for private function (Question)
• Python send email with "quoted-printable" transfer-encoding and "utf-8" content-encoding (Question + Answer)
• access return code of a function from within the trap RETURN handler [bash] (Question + Answer)
• rustdoc link to enum variant (Question + Answer)
• Is the MIME type 'image/jpg' the same as 'image/jpeg'? (Answer)
• select code based on cfg attribute not true [rust] (Question + Answer)
• find all hard linked files between two directories (Question + Answer)
• what is difference in `declare -r` and `readonly` in bash? (Question + Answer)
• On Linux, how do I the check CPU affinity of a process and its threads? (Question + Answer)
• What Ethernet twisted pair cable is best with a particular Ethernet switch (Question)
• How to list all `env` properties within jenkins pipeline job? (Question)
• error [E0716]: temporary value dropped while borrowed [rust] (Question)
• solving "argument requires that `x` is borrowed for `'y`" [rust] (Question)

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

Some public bug reports and feature requests I have made:

• OpenSSH Bug #3639 server thread aborts during client login after receiving SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT due to ssh_sandbox_violation

• DD-WRT bug #7622 datetime timezone is different among processes, causes ambiguous syslog message datetimestamps

• JetBrains PyCharm PY-38692 Python debugger breakpoint and symlinked paths can get confused during debugger pause
• JetBrains PyCharm PY-40521 PyCharm cannot create virtualenv based on PyPy3.6

• pypa/pipenv Issue #4906 pipenv install fails if subdirectory cannot be traversed
• pypa/pipenv Issue #6005 Pipfile package specifier for different platform not honored
• gerbera/gerbera Issue #2675 confusing nginx.conf docs example; use both ngx_http_subs_filter_module and ngx_http_sub_module
• yt-dlp/yt-dlp Issue #3514 set Windows NTFS file datetime-related attributes from other available information
• jeffparsons/rangemap Issue #42 [Feature Request] allow optional "no coalescing"
• yuk7/AlpineWSL Issue #26 installer should set Name alpine versioned, e.g. "Alpine-3.15.0"
• Entware/Entware Issue #716 opkg program does not allow changing lockfile location; cannot run if /opt is readonly
• microsoft/WSL Issue #5650 How to update the WSL2 kernel on current Windows 10
• rust-lang/rust Issue #110709 command rustc --print crate-name panics on Alpine 3.17 Linux

• Synology Community: NAS BUG: Hyper Backup dialog stuck when editing long-running paused task

• Launchpad systemd Bug #1470399 udev duplicates entries in 70-persistent-net.rules (see ad-hoc section Original description of the problem)

Pull Requests

My other github commits:

• chronotope/chrono various commits
• emc-isilon/pike various commits
• NeilGirdhar/ipromise PR #9 Readme tools samples
• build-trust/ockam PR #3710 Codespell fixes
• Stebalien/tempfile PR #184 doc clarify statics may leak

github Forum Posts

My favorite github forum posts:

• clap-rs/clap Discussion #3593 how to control OPTIONS listing ordering?

Other Links

• My gist.github profile
• My StackExchange profile
• My gitlab profile

Contributing to Open Source

• opencollective.com
• ko-fi
• see my Sponsors section on github

Among many other software projects and organizations that I have voluntarily donated!

Recommended podcasts

Software-oriented podcasts that I listen to irregularly.

• Business Wars (abbreviated histories of business competition)
• Changelog
• Crypto-Gram Security
• CyberWire Daily
• Python Bytes
• Rustacean Station
• Security Now
• Software Engineering Daily
• Software Engineering Radio
• Test & Code

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