prosolis 8f2ad34a10 Four ways the two scripts weren't the same app, and a smaller cat
A review of the pair work found the seams — every one of them a place where
the Chinese half was written and the older Latin half was left standing.

The right-click menu still asked the Latin tokenizer whether there was a word
under the pointer, so right-clicking a hanzi opened the browser's own menu
instead of the card. Hover, long-press and Ctrl+D had all moved to the shared
resolver; this one hadn't, and it is the surface the segmenter's own header
names first.

isHan is a property escape precisely so the extension blocks are covered, and
then every call site handed it one UTF-16 code unit — half a surrogate pair
for anything above the BMP, which \p{Script=Han} rightly says is not Han. The
run split in two around the character and the words either side stopped being
looked up. The walk, the scan and wordAt now step by code point, the regex is
anchored, and the test that passed by accident (unanchored, so it searched a
two-unit string rather than testing one character) is joined by one that
would have failed.

The pair picker sent the pair alone. The server validates pair and direction
as one decision and refuses a learner direction for a pair it has no word
list for — so an English speaker learning Chinese could not move to French at
all: every button failed with the generic message. It now names both, keeps
her direction where the target pack has a learner side, and returns her to
learning_en where it does not. Routed through useSession rather than the
picker's own api call, so me.direction — which decides whether the word list
stays loaded — moves with it.

UpdateMe answered every error from Get with 401. A SQLite fault on a PATCH
would have tripped the client's session interceptor and thrown a writer into
the signed-out overlay while her session was fine. Only a missing row means
not signed in, which is the distinction SetPair already made below it.

emitCommittedRef was assigned during render and called later from
compositionend; a render React discards must not leave its closure behind for
a DOM event.

And the kitten is 10% smaller — one clamp, three terms, everything else
calc()s off it.

vitest 297/297, tsc, go build/vet/test clean.
2026-07-28 20:03:45 -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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