Hey! I’m Daniel Kossmann,
welcome to my Public Learning Blog
I really like lists, so I made one to describe myself:
- Lifelong Learner: I believe in continuous learning and the power of sharing knowledge, which is why I advocate for open source, Creative Commons, and open web initiatives.
- Professional Journey: I work as an AI Product Manager at Extendify and have a background as an Engineering Manager and Full-Stack Web Developer.
- WordPress Expertise: Over 15 years in the WordPress ecosystem, I have been featured in People of WordPress and have organized monthly community meetups for 7 years. I now organize monthly events in WordPress Brasil Meetup Online.
- Interests: Product Management, Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and WordPress.
- Content Creator: In addition to this blog, I’ve been writing PainelWP, a weekly newsletter about WordPress in Portuguese, since June 2019.
- Hobbies: I love watching movies and wrote reviews as a hobby for a few years. I also enjoy drawing, especially with watercolors.
What I’ve Learned Recently
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I always plan the story of a talk first and leave the design for last, when I have the least energy. This time I asked Claude Design to help me with that last step.
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We celebrated one year of Site com Café (Homebrew Website Club Curitiba) with a growing group of people building their own corner of the web over coffee in Curitiba.
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Speaking is faster than typing for short replies and AI prompts. This is the offline setup I use on macOS and Linux, and what I learned getting it working.
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A simple convention for plain text writing: wrap a comment in double curly braces and let the AI ask about it or solve it when reviewing.
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Used ChatGPT to remove some interface icons from a podcast cover photo instead of manually editing the image, a good reminder to check if AI can solve the boring stuff.
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My recap of the #87 WordPress Curitiba meetup, where I gave a talk on WordPress 7.1 with a live demo of every new feature, plus the full list of links I mentioned.
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The WordPress community events in Curitiba are back!
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A summary of what happened in the twelfth edition of the Homebrew Website Club Curitiba (Site com Café).
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A summary of what happened in the eleventh edition of the Homebrew Website Club Curitiba, now more friendly known as Site com Café.
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A summary of the AI tools, tips, and real-world workflows shared live at our unrecorded Hands-On WordPress AI meetup.
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On June 20, 2026, Rodrigo Ghedin and I hosted the tenth Homebrew Website Club Curitiba meeting at Go Coffee Botânica, from 10am to 12pm. It was a rainy Saturday morning, the day after a late Brazilian World Cup soccer match, so my hopes were not high that someone besides me, Rodrigo and Débora Venâncio would…
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On 27 June 2026 we had the second WordPress Brasil Meetup Online, which was focused on bringing together people from the Brazilian and Portuguese communities who went to WordCamp Europe 2026 to share a little bit about their experience. The idea came up before WCEU, and during the event I talked with some people about…