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 attend. But I’m glad I was wrong about this!
After we arrived, ordered some coffee and started sharing some updates, Débora noticed someone new was looking at our tables, and it was Miriam Valentim, who had heard about the event and wanted to learn more. We all shared our websites and what we blog about, and since she didn’t have one, we shared some ideas on why it would be great for her to create a website, even without a laptop, just with her smartphone. Even coming from a technical background, she only wanted to focus on the content, so I recommended creating a website using WordPress.com, which was the easiest way to do this and not have to worry about any maintenance. And she would also get access to some AI tools that they are building, including being able to manage the website using Telegram. So she created an account with a new domain, built her website, and published her first Hello World post (in Portuguese)! We were all really happy about that, because the goal of the meeting is to inspire people (including ourselves) to maintain our own public presence on the web.
Here are some of the links that I talked about during the meeting:
- Post that I wrote about Chrome where I added how to enable vertical tabs in Chrome
- Daniel Miessler Newsletter about Cybersecurity, AI and tech
- My weekly WordPress Newsletter called PainelWP
- Simon Willison blog, co-creator of Django and AI independent researcher
- Simon’s data tool for journalists called Datasette
- Derek Sivers’s Now page and the NowNowNow directory
Miriam shared some classic sites too:
We also talked about creating a webring of the club, maybe using the Webring Manager plugin for WordPress, but since Rodrigo’s site was not in WordPress, we could host the list of links on GitHub (or similar). This could be a good reason to (finally) create a website for our meetings. We also thought about creating a page with a feature like Wander (or the Brazilian equivalent created by Rodrigo called Rolêrama) where a user could easily navigate through all websites from the attendees.
During the meeting I also tested some updates in my Claude Code and WordPress workflow to make it faster to make small updates on a translated version based on the original one (the prompt that I used was I updated part of the content in the post Experimenting switching from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome, please do the same update in the translated version). It worked, but I saw that there was some room to reduce the number of AI calls even further. I also started updating my Now page, but we ended the meeting before I was done.
It was a great meeting, with a delicious hot coffee with caramel and a Brazilian cheese bread (pão de queijo). Looking forward to the next edition!
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