prosolis 10e8aef86c Stop regenerating the world on every check
A card vanishing and coming back seconds later, with different words, was
never about latency: every pass deleted its whole family and re-inserted
it, so each round minted new row ids. The rail keys on suggestion.id, so a
full remount was guaranteed — new id, new created_at (hence the re-fired
chime), and a fresh explanation from a model that re-reasons every time it
is asked. One unchanged mistake carried three different explanations in a
single sitting.

Passes now reconcile instead of replace. A re-proposed edit keeps its row:
its id, its created_at, and the wording she has already read. And the
grammar checkpoint stops asking about sentences nobody touched — the
document is split into hashed sentences, checked_chunks records which ones
a family has read, and only the difference is sent. When nothing changed
it doesn't call the model at all, and doesn't spend its rate-limit slot on
having done nothing.

The tone is part of a sentence's identity: cached advice was written for
the old register, so switching doc type re-reads every line.

replaceMechanics reconciles too, which mattered more than expected — the
rule pack fires 250 ms after a keystroke, so it was re-minting every local
card's id several times a sentence.

Only the grammar checkpoint is chunked. Voice is a property of the whole
document, and the collocation coach is a button she pressed asking for a
fresh read.

No client change was needed; stable ids were the whole of it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
2026-07-27 22:46:12 -07:00

🌸 Petal

A self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor with warm bubbly design, auto-save, and local-LLM grammar/ESL suggestions. See petal-spec.md for the full design spec and BUILD_PLAN.md for build progress.

Stack

Go + chi backend · SQLite (modernc, pure Go) · React + Vite + Tiptap + Tailwind v4 frontend · local vLLM/Ollama for AI suggestions. Single-binary deployment (frontend embedded via go:embed).

Local development

Two processes during development:

# 1. Backend (serves /api on :8080)
go run ./cmd/server

# 2. Frontend dev server (HMR on :5173, proxies /api → :8080)
cd web && npm install && npm run dev

Open http://localhost:5173 while developing.

Production build (single binary)

cd web && npm run build      # emits web/dist (embedded by the Go binary)
cd .. && go build -o petal ./cmd/server
./petal                      # serves UI + API on :8080

Configuration is via environment variables — copy .env.example to .env.

Deployment

docker compose up -d --build     # petal + the two Piper read-aloud sidecars

Behind Traefik on the parodia.dev VPS; vLLM stays on millenia over headscale. Full runbook — first deploy, the LLM link, backups and restore — in deploy/README.md.

Status

Early build, multi-session. Auth (Authentik OIDC) is next; Copyleaks plagiarism is still parked — see BUILD_PLAN.md.

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Description
Petal is a self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor for an ESL user. It replaces Grammarly with a warm, bubbly web app that combines Tiptap rich text editing, auto-save cloud storage, and periodic AI-powered grammar/ESL suggestions backed by a local vLLM inference endpoint.
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