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The tutor prompt said "never mix languages in a single response" and mirrored the language of the question, so asking in English — which she does, because she is practising — returned the one explanation surface that gives nothing in her own language. It now answers in both, pair language first, halves separated by a blank line. Which half is the safety net and which is the lesson depends on who is writing: the pair is (English + X) and Petal is used from both ends, so the prompt asks for both and says it doesn't know which way round. The split is a rendering nicety, never a parse the reply depends on: a half-streamed reply is all one half, a model that ignores the instruction renders as one block, and nothing is ever dropped. For the height, the first attempt clamped the box to the room left below the anchored card so it could never overhang — measured, that gave 176px against a 442px answer, worse than the 220px it replaced. The card's own chrome spends ~290px of an 810px window, so "fits below the word" and "room to read" are not both available. The ceiling is now a flat 50vh and the overhang is made navigable instead, per item 4: the card reports its reach like the rail already does, the column grows, and the page can scroll to the actions below it.
🌸 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.