justice-bac/mike

A Justice Canada engineer is wiring Mike up to actually run somewhere - devcontainer in, Fly.io out.

Early but active - 14 commits across four threads in the first few days MikeWatch has been watching, with the most recent push just before first sighting.

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This fork of Mike is being shepherded by justice-bac, with the visible hands-on work coming from Jules Kuehn - an engineer writing from a justice.gc.ca address, which points to Canada's federal Department of Justice. The signal is government-of-Canada legal tech, though nothing here is officially badged as such yet.

The focus so far is unglamorous but important: making Mike easy to stand up and easy to run. There's a devcontainer that copes with the department's TLS-intercepting VPN (so Mike can actually reach the services it needs from inside a government network), and a one-command Fly.io deployment path wired to GitHub Actions. In between, the fork is keeping current with upstream.

There's no product rebrand here, no new legal niche being carved out on the surface. What you're looking at is a deployment story - someone trying to get Mike off a laptop and onto a real URL inside a real institution.

What's in it

Fly.io deploy in one command An opinionated, GitHub Actions-wired path to running both halves of Mike on Fly.io, ready to import.
Devcontainer that works behind a government VPN A VS Code devcontainer set up so Node, git, and friends can reach external services through Canada's TLS-intercepting network.
Hostable, not just local The fork takes Mike from a laptop-only experiment to something that lives at a URL you can share.
Keeping pace with upstream Mid-deployment work, the fork is still pulling in upstream Mike's changes rather than drifting away.

Direction

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Activity

Themed changes and pull requests touching this fork, newest first. Themed changes that haven't been turned into a public post yet still appear — they're real work even without a published writeup.

📝 justice-bac ships a one-command Fly.io deploy for Mike 8 commits 11d ago infrastructureintegration draft

A complete, opinionated path to running both halves of Mike on Fly.io - wired up to GitHub Actions and ready to import.

✅ #1 ops: jus devcontainer setup; fly.io deploy +3,264 -1,318 12d ago self by juleskuehn ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

📝 justice-bac gets Mike off the laptop and onto a live URL 8 commits 12d ago infrastructure draft

@juleskuehn pushed a deployment branch that takes the fork from local-only to actually hostable.

⛔ #121 ops: devcontainer setup for JUS network, related fixes +39 13d ago by juleskuehn ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

📝 Devcontainer with Government-of-Canada TLS Root (no public page) 5 commits 13d ago not yet rewritten

📝 Upstream Sync into jus-setup Branch (no public page) 1 commit 13d ago not yet rewritten

Threads of work (detailed view)

2 threads have been distilled into posts.

justice-bac ships a one-command Fly.io deploy for Mike

A complete, opinionated path to running both halves of Mike on Fly.io - wired up to GitHub Actions and ready to import.

infrastructureintegration

8 commits · latest 11d ago

justice-bac gets Mike off the laptop and onto a live URL

@juleskuehn pushed a deployment branch that takes the fork from local-only to actually hostable.

infrastructure

8 commits · latest 12d ago

Pull requests (detailed view)

2 PRs touch this fork — inbound (filed against it) or outbound (filed from it). State icons match the editorial dashboard.

✅ Merged (1)

✅ merged · #1 ops: jus devcontainer setup; fly.io deploy

by juleskuehn · opened 12d ago · merged 12d ago by juleskuehn

justice-bac/mike ← justice-bac/mike · +3,264 -1,318 · self · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub

⛔ Closed without merge (1)

⛔ closed · #121 ops: devcontainer setup for JUS network, related fixes

by juleskuehn · opened 13d ago · closed 13d ago

willchen96/mike ← justice-bac/mike · +39 · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub