Let me start with a confession, I've never actually lived in Philadelphia. Unless you count the first few months after I was born (a home birth on Green Street, because Wendy Forman is a superhero). My parents moved to Bucks County, PA when I was a toddler and I grew up in the small village of Carversville, which looks like this: not Philadelphia. (photo by phillyburbs.com ) I did spend a day each week at my grandparents apartment in The Parkway House in Philadelphia though,

My friend Janet co-founded SF sketchfest in 2002, long before devices would try to autocorrect the word "sketchfest" into "sketchiest" no matter how many times you try to text it to someone. I've known Janet since we worked together at HuffPost Live in the mid 2010's and been wanting to come up to San Francicso for the comedy festival since then, but it never worked out for me calendar-wise until this year. And I'm so glad I finally got to attend a couple shows there and see

Show of hands if you've heard the term " vibecoding "? I first heard it on one of my favorite podcasts Hard Fork which covers the dizzying pace of tech advances, but in an accessible and entertaining way. The basics of vibecoding is that you can now build websites and software without really knowing what you're doing. You just go on vibes. And simple prompts in plain English that the AI platform of your choice can translate into real, working code. I really like this advance