prosolis f82f2b589d Measure the corner the kitten sits in, not the kitten
The overlap test read the badge's own box, which bobs, shrinks 10% when it
yields, and grows 4% on hover — so the mascot's answer to "is a card in my way"
depended on what it was currently doing. Against the live build, with three
cards up and no bubble, it flipped between drawn widths of 293 and 264 on its
own: the 0.9 yield scale, cycling.

Measure a probe span instead. It sits exactly where the badge sits, never
animates, and moves the size variable to .petal-corner so both are sized from
the same number. Nothing the mascot does can now change what it yields to.

Cards also settle a pixel from the corner routinely — a rail re-pack, a resize,
a browser bar appearing — so hold a yield until the card has retreated 24px
rather than deciding on the exact edge.

Verified in a real browser over CDP: seven overlap depths against the mascot's
top edge, each settling once and holding, drawn width steady where it used to
swing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GJHNvirh7Hzhc9RL3HAvz7
2026-07-28 22:21:33 -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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