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

• 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

The following lists are pubicly available examples of my work:

• 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.

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

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

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

• Travis CI workflow ^archived for my project CoverLovin2

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)

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)

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

My favorite github forum posts:

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

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

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

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

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