prosolis acb35108c0 Curated against English had quietly become curated against writing
Seen live: "Esta manhã acordei cedo e fui correr ao longo da marginal.
O ar estava fresco e havia poucas pessoas na rua." — unremarkable
Portuguese, two marker hits, zero English hits, and a verdict of
English. Corrected as English, read aloud in an American voice.

The list was missing the ordinary machinery of the language: the
contractions (ao, à, num), the tenses a diary is written in (estava,
havia, fomos), the words that join two clauses (até, depois, então,
onde). Each clears the bar the list already set — an English sentence
has no reason to contain them — so their absence bought nothing.

The floor stays at three. What changed is that three is now reachable
by prose rather than only by a paragraph that argues its own case. fr
and es get the same additions by analogy; neither has an account yet to
catch it live, which is exactly how this one survived. "sin" and "tan"
stay out of the es list: both are English words.

Two regression tests, pointed in opposite directions — ordinary
Portuguese must read as hers, and English about Portugal, English
quoting Portuguese, and a plain English diary must all still read as
English, held verdict included.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GJHNvirh7Hzhc9RL3HAvz7
2026-07-29 00:28:32 -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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