Today I Learned

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• that you can mock Carbon’s now() with Carbon::setTestNow()

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• that there is a bulk file renamer built into Finder

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• about CSS3’s vmin
• that MySQL/MariaDB’s binary logs can be behemoths and eat up your disk space - make sure you purge them once in a while

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• to use config.platform in composer.json to fake platform packages to define the target platform, which comes in handy when we have different PHP versions on production and dev machines

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• that Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise is actually a cover of Steve Wonder’s Pastime Paradise

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• that Michellin-star reviewers (“inspectors”) are completely anonymous, and many of the company’s top executives have never met an inspector

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• that the name Jessica first appears in Shakespeare’s 1590s play The Merchant of Venice

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• that Leonardo da Vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue

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• that creating a map that perfectly represents the Earth is mathematically impossible
• to use data provider in PHPUnit
• about PHPUnit’s incomplete and skipped tests
• to use traits in tests

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• that Eminem doesn’t allow swearing in his house
• that Wolverine was once torn in half by the Hulk, and was left that way for 3.5 years
• that https://github.com/<username>.png redirects to the user’s current avatar: https://github.com/phanan.png