How to ‘hack’ and win the May Mayhem blog contest

AlexVanderbist commented 6 years ago

https://alexvanderbist.com/2018/how-to-hack-and-win-the-may-mayhem-blog-contest

ghost commented 6 years ago

@AlexVanderbist Congratulations for the most creative article! 💯

freekmurze commented 6 years ago

😈

kfirba commented 6 years ago

Haha, what a great article! Good one!

Oh, of-course :+1:

introwit commented 6 years ago

@alexgiuvara described it really well, damn creative 💯

m1guelpf commented 6 years ago

We have a winner!

MarcoSpoor commented 6 years ago

Definitely creative 😎

laraning commented 6 years ago

Excellent article, very creative and well written. Also, it's inside the "contest rules" since it shows how to integrate the GitHub with an Laravel app, so it's Laravel blog scope! Congrats!

llanderr commented 6 years ago

Great writing and creative approach!

castroalves commented 6 years ago

The 🏆 Oscar goes to... @AlexVanderbist! Well done!

jobcerto commented 6 years ago

LOL, With this tutorial i can make a bunch of tasks in my apps with Dusk. It's awesome!

JosielSantos commented 6 years ago

Great article! A very creative tutorial that shows many features and facilities of Laravel and educate people that exposes your keys in public repositories.

hamzaali00001 commented 6 years ago

what if someone really used this method and mess up votes on everyone's issue. Everyone would look fake. Also, this post has the highest number of votes :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: . I think someone is going to mess things up.

AlexVanderbist commented 6 years ago

Thank you all for the kind words and feedback! This is my second technical blogpost I've ever written so it's nice to see all time and effort pay off :D

@hamzaali00001 I was sort of expecting this to happen before I even wrote the blogpost. However, I'm not too worried this will mess voting up more than people secretly asking their friends to vote 😅

davorminchorov commented 6 years ago

Clever use of contest rules :D

brendt commented 6 years ago

@AlexVanderbist

so it's nice to see all time and effort pay off

I see what you did there 💰

RemiCollin commented 6 years ago

Brilliant post; you managed to expose the fact that github reactions are not a reliable metric for this kind of contest, and teach something useful at the same time. You get my thumb up, which is not a fake one, FWIW :)

ghost commented 6 years ago

i voted

connor11528 commented 6 years ago

I've never used Dusk for testing but after reading this definitely want to get started! Seems like lots of opportunities for web scraping use cases also. 👏 @AlexVanderbist

Insolita commented 6 years ago

@connor11528 The usage dusk on server more difficult, than on local machine. For web scrapping the best decision is puppeteer now https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer It more lightweight. You may find php -wrappers for it usage, as one of example is https://github.com/spatie/browsershot

AlexVanderbist commented 6 years ago

@Insolita Thanks for the great suggestions! spatie/browsershot is pretty great 🤷‍♂️

mnapoli commented 6 years ago

This is a really great article. However how does it work regarding the "no lobby" rule? Because of its content the article mentions the contest, so it attracts people here to vote.

In any case all votes here seem legit, 99% of the votes are from accounts that existed before the contest started :p (see https://ihy0lrdsek.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev for an analysis, and here if you want to see the source code)

AlexVanderbist commented 6 years ago

@mnapoli thanks! I wasn't sure how it would work with the "no lobby" rule (didn't expect this article to blow up like it did). However, it's my first "released" blogpost and the url to the blog hasn't been shared at all outside of this issue. This is what traffic over the last month looks like ¯_(ツ)_/¯