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The mute toggle, the falling-petals toggle and the chosen companion lived in localStorage, which is a property of the machine. Now that two people can sign in to one Petal, sharing a laptop would have meant sharing a mascot and one person's silence muting the other. Each key is namespaced by user id. The awkward part is timing: sounds.ts and petals.ts read their value the moment they are imported, long before /api/me can have answered. Rather than block startup on the network for a mute flag, a read before the answer arrives sees the old un-namespaced key -- on a single-writer browser, exactly the right value -- and setPrefsScope then adopts it into that account's namespace and tells every reader to look again. Adoption moves rather than copies, so the first account inherits what was set before accounts existed and the second starts from Petal's defaults. The personal spelling dictionary moves further than that: onto the server. It is built from her own writing, so it should not be readable by whoever sits down at the same browser next -- but merely namespacing it would have split the list she already has between her laptop and her tablet, which is worse than where we started. A table keyed (user_id, lang, word) follows her instead. The lang is the dictionary's, not hers: an English exception must not silence a pt-PT flag once the second pair ships. Adding a word takes effect in the editor immediately and persists in the background, so the underline goes away the instant she asks. A browser still holding the old list hands it over on first load, and only lets go once the server has taken it. 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.