Claire's writing — 8 documents, 33 snapshots, 103 suggestions, 3 vocabulary words and an image — now belongs to her account rather than to the pre-auth 'local' user, and the VPS is canonical. millenia was left running and untouched as a frozen fallback; it diverges the moment either side is written to, so it wants retiring rather than syncing. The plan's stated prerequisite, that she log in once so her subject exists, turned out to be false. Authentik's hashed_user_id sub is the user's uid, derived from her id and the instance secret, so it can be read in advance — which means the data moves first and she signs in to find her writing already there, instead of to an empty Petal that fills in later. The fix here is to the liveness guard, and it is the second attempt at it. PRAGMA locking_mode = EXCLUSIVE goes on holding its lock after being set back to NORMAL — SQLite only lets go on that connection's next database access — so against a real WAL database the script locked itself out of its own VACUUM INTO backup. It passed locally because the test database had come out of VACUUM INTO and so was never in WAL mode: the fixture didn't look like production, the same way the stub identity provider's slashless issuer didn't. The probe now runs on its own connection and closes 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.