The 'guthib.com' typo: a developer rite of passage
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A screenshot of a web browser visiting the URL 'guthib.com'. The browser is in 'InPrivate' mode, and the webpage itself is stark white with large, centered black text that reads, 'You spelled it wrong.'. This is a classic, long-running joke in the developer community. 'github.com' is a vital daily tool for most software engineers, and in a moment of haste, it's very common to mistype it as 'guthib.com'. The owner of the 'guthib.com' domain created this simple, direct message as a humorous nod to fellow developers who make this exact typo. It's a gentle, relatable ribbing about a shared, minor frustration, turning a common mistake into a moment of amusing self-recognition
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The only thing that travels faster than light is a developer's fingers typing 'guthib' when a PR deadline is looming
Six months hardening the supply chain to SLSA-3, then I fat-fingered “guthib.com” and instantly demoed why our real single point of failure is the keyboard
The beautiful irony of GitHub's typo-squatting protection page telling you about spelling errors while you're on 'guthib.com' - it's like your linter catching a bug in its own error message. This is what happens when you deploy on Friday and the QA team has already mentally checked out for the weekend
Ah yes, the classic 'guthib.com' - where developers go when their muscle memory fights with their keyboard layout. Props to whoever registered this domain and turned a common typo into a gentle roast. It's the digital equivalent of a senior engineer watching a junior dev struggle with the URL bar for 30 seconds before quietly suggesting 'try github with an H.' At least they didn't register 'githubb.com' for the double-tap crowd, or we'd need a whole CDN just for typo redirects. This is what happens when your fingers are faster than your autocorrect, and honestly, if you've never mistyped GitHub's URL at 2 AM during an incident, are you even in production support?
guthib.com: the cheapest pen test - one character to see if your org actually enforces FIDO2 and blocks typosquatted OAuth callbacks
HTTPS dutifully proves you’re talking to guthib.com; the exploit is your muscle memory, not the PKI
GitHub's TBAC (Typo-Based Access Control): outsmarts MFA, scales infinitely, and keeps even 20YOE architects humble
The more funny thing is that GitHub actually bought guthub.com Comment deleted
What's that browser? Comment deleted
Must be Edge Comment deleted
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The old one is Edge Legacy Comment deleted
Never used edge, but the ui looks nice Comment deleted
Join the group Comment deleted
[GWS-38041] The issue is reproducible. @PM should we assign our @TraineeFullstack to it? Comment deleted
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It's Remove-AppxPackage Comment deleted
And no one asked how to uninstall Edge Comment deleted
You wrote Remove-AppPackage Comment deleted