Homebox Fork's Two Backend Scripts Need a Real Job Runner

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 11, 2026 · 24m

Daniel's Homebox fork added two backend scripts the upstream project was never designed to host: one converts new images to WebP and rewrites database references, the other sends images through a vision model to extract serial numbers without overwriting existing data. Both are incremental and both are deferred so the fast path stays fast. The problem is what runs them. Upstream Homebox ships a background runner with a name, an interval, and a function — no queue, no persistence, no retry, no record. Cron silently skips overlapping runs and multiplies jobs across instances. The episode walks…