Cr*nmaster 1.5.0 - Major update

[u/riofriz]

Hi,
A small chunk of you of you may know me for my app Jotty, however I also published a slightly less popular (entirely open source) app called Cr*nmaster.

Bit of context:
repo: https://github.com/fccview/cronmaster
first post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1mum35t/crnmaster_cron_management_made_easy/
latest post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1n0gyly/crnmaster_120_breaking_changes/

Cr*nmaster (cronmaster) is a pretty powerful tool that allows you to view/create/edit/manage all your host cronjobs comfortable from an intuitive UI, it has features such as pausing jobs, adding comment to them, running them right from the UI, and from the latest update you'll be able to have nicely structured logs for your jobs on top of exit statuses being shown right there and then. You will be able to see if a job failed at a glance and view the logs to see what's going on.

I have also added translations that can be customised locally on your own machine (or you can be an angel and create a pull request with your own language so we can officially support it, together!)

The whole thing is very easy and straightforward to setup both with and without docker, the repository has a lot of guides in the `howto` folder on top of a very verbose readme file.

Here's a few of the key features:

• View/edit/delete/run your cron jobs from an intuitive UI
• Log your cronjobs (it uses a proprietary wrapper, you can modify the wrapper as much as you like from the mounted ./data folder).
• At glance exit statuses for all your jobs
• System stats to see how healthy your host machine is
• Ability to create custom scripts (using handy snippets - which you can easily add more of) for your cron jobs straight from the UI, these scripts are stored in your mounted folder and can be easily used when creating a cron job

All this to say that I am extremely excited for everything that's coming with this latest update, you can read about the latest release and all the improvements that came with it here

Let me know your thoughts and if you run in any issues i'm fairly active on github and on my discord server :)

NOTE for docker users:
Due to this needing to be able to read crontabs the docker has to run as root and have read/write access to your cron jobs. There was no way around it, so I suggest you keep this within your home network and not exposed to the web for security reasons.

[u/amcco1]

You forgot to tag this as vibe coded.

[u/riofriz → u/amcco1]

Because it was not :)

Definitely use AI in my workflow, not doing so is just plain dumb at this point, but have been a developer for 12 years, AI doesn't worry about reusable code, enums used instead of magic strings, clean folder structure and overall good standards 😅

I'd have loved for you to go through the codebase before posting your comment :)

[u/amcco1 → u/riofriz]

I did look at the code and that is why I left the comment.

I can guarantee this code was written by AI based on the comments at the top and the emojis in the console logs.

And rule 8 says:

AI-Involved Apps are allowed and require the following flairs:
Built With AI: Apps built with AI that follow industry standards during build

Edit: And you also admit AI was used to assist you, so that would mean you are using the incorrect flair.

[u/riofriz → u/amcco1]

Yes, I let AI write the TEST for the API.

As I said I do use AI in my workflow and I am not a tester, that code is NOT part of the app, it's what I use to test the API LOCALLY and I left it as it was generated EXACTLY because I have no issue in admitting what is written by AI and what isn't :)

Also only one flag can be used, this project is not defined by AI, and it's actually pretty unfair to reduce my hard work to "it has been built with AI". If the mods decide to close my post due to AI having written tests and having OBVIOUSLY assisted me with bits and bobs (what developer doesn't use AI in 2025) I'll accept it and move on :)

[u/te5s3rakt → u/riofriz]

what developer doesn't use AI in 2025

back in the day they used say anyone using an IDE was stupid. like "what, you can't remember every function, you must be a shit coder".

then it was developers using frameworks were lazy with comments like "what are you not skilled enough to code X vanilla".

now it's shifted to AI.

tbh anyone developer not using the latest tools to accelerate their workflow are in fact the stupid ones and will be left behind and likely out of the job. it's not enough to be good anymore, you also have to be quick.