prosolis d01a0f1f0a Document the Phase 15 deploy and ungate the Spanish pair
deploy/README.md becomes the real runbook: the VPS stack, Traefik, the
headscale LLM link, the interim edge gate, backups and restore. The
millenia Piper notes move to an appendix -- that instance still runs
them, and it is still canonical.

Two items are called out as outstanding rather than done, because both
need access to millenia: vLLM is not bound to its headscale interface,
so no AI pass works from the VPS yet, and parodia's ssh key is not
authorized there, so backups are VPS-local only -- which is not a backup
in the sense that matters. Each has its one-command fix written down.

Also folds in DreamDict gaining Spanish: es was explicitly gated on that
dataset existing, so it moves from "Later / not now" to a normal
follow-on pair after pt-PT, and the Phase 20 provider seam should cover
it from the start.
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🌸 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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