Tim Flight

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My AI Generated eBird Rare Bird Sighting with ChatGPT and DALL-E 2

03 February 2023

ChatGPT: write an ebird report of a rare bird in maine DALL-E 2: photorealistic image of a white-tailed perched on a spruce tree on […]

Flowing Text Between Columns in HTML (CSS)

07 November 2019

When laying out text, narrow columns of text are a bit easier to read than super wide lines of text. Graphic designers often break […]

Slim (PHP) and HTTP ERROR 500, Internal Server Error

02 December 2017

When starting out with Slim, sometimes people have difficulty getting it running and their browser returns a HTTP ERROR 500, Internal Server Error. There […]

Composer’s PHP Platform Config

26 October 2017

Developers are often bitten when their development environment doesn’t match their production environment close enough. When using composer to manage PHP dependencies, composer might […]

AncestryDNA’s May 2016 NAD Update

23 May 2016

In the past couple of days Ancestry has updated the list of NADs (New Ancestor Discoveries). AncestryDNA subscribers can now login to see an […]

Dear GenealogyBank: It’s Not Me, It’s You

29 April 2015

Dear GenealogyBank, It’s not me– It’s you. Really. You have a great product. Sure, there is overlap with other free sites like Chronicling America and other […]

‘The Checkout’ takes on Ancestry and WDYTYA

26 April 2015

Last week an Australian TV series called ‘The Checkout‘ released an episode which parodies Who Do You Think You Are. The video, entitled ‘Who […]

Decoy Death Dates

12 April 2015

Have you ever come across decoy death dates in your genealogy research… dates intentionally incorrect (for any event, not just deaths)? It occurred to me […]

Dick Eastman’s Complaint About Genealogists

10 April 2015

Dick Eastman has a complaint about many genealogists. I am appalled that some people apparently expect a company to spend money gathering free records, […]

Ancestry Clarifies “Ancestor Discoveries”

10 April 2015

Last week Ancestry.com announced a new feature, ‘Ancestor Discoveries’ and claimed a “Breakthrough in DNA“. Imagine that you know nothing about your 3rd great-grandmother on […]