When she reaches for Chinese mid-sentence, the card now says 翻译 · Translate rather than Clarity. Petal already found the span and already rendered it into English; the type was the whole gap, and it is derived from the span rather than asked of the model so it can't drift between passes. Carries migration 0015 (suggestions table rebuild for the extended type CHECK) and two findings from the running page: the inline underline needs a per-type colour rule or it renders invisibly, and at her viewport the rail is disabled — the inline hover card is what she sees. Green: go vet, go test ./..., tsc --noEmit, 199 vitest tests. 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.