Upload board: - the tile grid no longer re-sorts itself as files finish (that reshuffled the list under the cursor); it keeps insertion order, uses auto-fill tiles of ~150px so they hold a readable size, scrolls inside a 60vh area and no longer chains the page scroll (overscroll-contain); - the files currently in flight are pinned in a small live strip above the grid (name, percent, bar) so progress stays visible while the grid is scrolled with hundreds of tiles. Bulk rating: a 'bulk rate' button in the Pending & Unmatched header opens a large modal with Safe/Questionable/Explicit pills, a tickable thumbnail grid (Select all / Clear) and one confirm that moves every selected upload into the library with that rating. Backed by POST /api/uploads/resolve-bulk/ (temp_ids + rating, own rows only): each staged file is resolved as a custom entry (keeps its staged tags/notes), and already-completed or foreign ids are reported per entry instead of failing the whole batch. Built for the 358-file backlog. Tests: 4 bulk-resolve tests (resolution with the rating, input validation, foreign ids untouched, mixed completed+pending) — full backend suite 53 green. Verified live end to end: staged a file, bulk-resolved it as 'q', saw J-96 created with that rating, then removed the item, temp row and test token.
J621
Self-hosted media library and e621 archive manager, rebuilt as a React SPA + Django REST API.
Structure
backend/ Django 6 + DRF API (MariaDB + Redis via docker compose)
frontend/ Vite + React + TypeScript SPA
deploy/ Docker images, compose variants and Tailscale serve configs
extras/ shell integrations (fish_greeting with fastfetch)
Development
Backend
cd backend
source venv/bin/activate
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py scan_files # index the watched folder
python manage.py runserver
Copy .env.example to .env and set WATCHED_FOLDER before scanning.
Frontend
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:5173, proxies /api to :8000
Production
Docker: see deploy/ for the two images (SPA on static
nginx, API on gunicorn), the three compose variants (both / frontend-only /
backend-only) behind a shared nginx service and a Tailscale sidecar, and the
public-funnel or tailnet-only serve configs. deploy/push_*.sh builds and
pushes the multi-arch images to the Gitea registry.
Random image endpoint
Used by the SPA's Random page and by shell greetings (fish_greeting + fastfetch):
curl -H "Authorization: Token <token>" \
"https://j621.example.ts.net/api/random/?rating=s,q&fastfetch=1"
{
"j_id": "J-59",
"filename": "J-59.jpg",
"extension": "jpg",
"rating": "e",
"url": "https://j621.example.ts.net/api/files/J-59/raw/?sig=…",
"download_url": "https://j621.example.ts.net/api/files/J-59/raw/?sig=…&download=1",
"thumbnail_url": "https://j621.example.ts.net/api/files/J-59/thumbnail/?sig=…",
"fastfetch": true
}
rating— comma separated subset ofs,q,e(default: any).fastfetch=1, or any request whose User-Agent containsfastfetch, limits the roll topng/jpg/gifso terminals can display it. Images are the only candidates in both modes.urlis absolute, and signed for authenticated callers, so fastfetch can load it without headers. Guests get an unsigned URL and only see guest-visible items./randomand/random/are aliases of/api/random/for scripts. Behind the bundled nginx those aliases negotiate onAccept: browsers get the SPA page, requesters like curl/wget/fastfetch get the JSON./api/random/is the unambiguous path for scripts; 404 when nothing matches the filters.- A ready-made shell greeting that uses this endpoint lives in
extras/fish_greeting/. - Scoped tokens for scripts: the Account page's Shell tokens section
(also
/tokens) issuesj621r_…tokens that only authenticate/api/random/— the rest of the API rejects them. They are stored as hashes, shown once, and revocable any time (/api/auth/greeting-tokens/).
Licence
Source-available, non-commercial: personal and other non-commercial use is welcome under the Jake Labs Non-Commercial Software Licence, which requires attribution and keeps derivative works under the same licence. Commercial use is not permitted. Third-party dependencies keep their own licences (all permissive: MIT, BSD, Apache-2.0, ISC).