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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A summary of the ideas discussed during the online event, with people from Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands.
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An experiment to see if I can use Claude Design to make a barebone presentation into something more stylish.
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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 DĂ©bora Venâncio would…