jchan7 renames Mike to Bobby - and bakes a login backdoor into the source

A top-to-bottom rebrand is the headline; a hardcoded sign-in that skips the real login system is the story.

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jchan7's fork swaps every trace of "Mike" for "Bobby" - the name in the interface, the assistant's own self-description, the production web address, the works. On its own that's a cosmetic fork, and one that would collide hard with anyone trying to stay in step with the original project.

The part worth knowing: the login screen now carries a built-in account with a fixed username and password written directly into the code. Enter them and the app waves you straight in, bypassing the proper authentication service entirely. It reads like a shortcut for local demos, but it isn't switched off behind a setting - it lives permanently in the source, which means it would travel into any live deployment built from this fork. Anyone who can read the public code can read the credentials.

So what Anyone sizing up forks of Mike to actually deploy should treat this one as a demo toy, not a foundation - the sign-in shortcut is a standing security hole.

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2 commits from jchan7/mike, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA Subject Author Date
dbce928e setting up Jason Chan 2026-05-02 ↗ GitHub
fb270581 Create package-lock.json Jason Chan 2026-05-02 ↗ GitHub

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