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Raised by the user, not by the plan: there was no way to change language in the mobile UI. There was no way anywhere. `users.pair_lang` has been readable since Phase 19 and writable by nobody — /api/me was GET-only and Upsert deliberately skips the column — which is also why "no pt-PT account exists yet" has stood through two phases. Nothing could create one. PATCH /api/me answers with the whole user rather than 204, so the client re-reads the pair from the server instead of trusting its own request. One write reaches everything: langpack, Hunspell dictionary, Piper voice, lexicon provider and prompt language all read the column at use time. The server refuses a pair it has no copy for, and auth.shippedPairs is deliberately not internal/llm's list. That one names pairs the prompts can talk about (fr and es, since Phase 19); this one names pairs Petal can render itself in, which needs a langpack. Storing fr today would strand her on Chinese with no way back except a lucky guess at a button she cannot read. The picker sits in the sidebar footer because the sidebar is the mobile drawer — always one tap away. The status bar exists only while a document is open, which is the wrong moment to find the app speaking a language you can't read. Each language names itself, 中文 and Português: the one place bilingual copy would get in the way. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
🌸 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.