Inklings: a tumblelog

I spent an age trying to fix this, but the log output of neither nginx nor php-fpm gave any indication as to why I got nothing except empty responses when trying to access .php files.

Eventually, I stumbled across this post on ServerFault, which lead me to try adding this to the location section:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

And bingo! It starts working. I can’t fathom why php-fpm didn’t either respond with an error, either in the log or as a response, or couldn’t have fathomed it from the DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME headers. That’s some mighty good design! </sarcasm>

Migration tool for SQLAlchemy.

A noise generator for Android devices. It’s open source, and the source is here.

I’d been looking for one of these for generating brownian noise and pink noise to help with concentration and for blocking out office noise without playing music.

Notes a number of useful packages if you’re stuck in a position (such as I am) where you need to be able to read and write .xls files.