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- Three new Lottie companions: Wiggle Dog (摇尾狗), Butterfly (蝴蝶), Parrot (鹦鹉). Parrot is mirrored via a new `flip` flag on Companion, threaded through LottiePlayer (scaleX(-1)) since the asset faces left. - Mascot size now scales with the viewport: --petal-companion-size clamp(10rem, 17vw, 20rem); art, emoji fallback, and the sleep "z" all derive from it. - Larger, more legible tip bubble (1.4rem zh / 1.15rem en, wider bubble). - Bubbles linger longer for a bilingual ESL read: baseline 9s→14s, cheer 6s→9s, per-char 45→55ms, cap 20s→32s. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
🌸 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.
Status
Early build, multi-session. Auth (Authentik), Copyleaks plagiarism, and Docker/Traefik
deployment are deferred — see BUILD_PLAN.md.
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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