On May 16 we had the ninth edition of the Homebrew Website Club Curitiba, held at Temporal Cafés Especiais from 1:30 pm to 4 pm.
At the start, each of us defined our goal for the event. For me, it was to update my about page in both languages and to create a Portuguese version of the now page. As a stretch goal, I wanted to see if I could improve the content management capabilities I had built. I also shared these goals on LinkedIn as a way to create some additional social pressure. Débora’s aim was to organize her blog’s categories and publish some posts that were in draft, while Rodrigo’s plan was to review his blog’s shortcodes and see if the ClassicPack plugin could be useful.
Before diving in, I ordered one of my favourite beverages, the Bobi (Latte Caramelo), along with some Brazilian Cheese Breads (a.k.a. pão de queijo). After a quick update to my Now page, including adding the new project WordPress Brazil Online Meetup that I’m organizing, I asked Claude Code to create the translation. Besides needing to ask it to translate a book title and manually fix an icon block, the process went smoother than I expected, which was great.
I took a quick break to help Débora, testing the Custom Post Type UI plugin using WordPress Playground to see if it would help organize some non-public content she wanted to add to her blog, but in the end she decided to use the native private post status for those posts. It was nice to try this plugin to create a new Custom Post Type and taxonomy, and I hope a solution like the Create Content Model experiment (or any other) becomes native functionality in the platform.
My second task, updating the about page, proved to be more of a challenge. The English version had been updated a year ago and the Portuguese one four years ago! The English was more complete with my CV and LinkedIn recommendations, but the Portuguese had links to some of my talks at events and had a more personal touch. So I gave this context to Claude Code and asked it to suggest some changes so I could first update the English version. It gave some good suggestions, including what to leave out (some old references and a photo), and I asked it to apply these changes.
After that I did some edits but stopped because someone I had invited via LinkedIn came with some friends to meet us and learn more about what we do. None of them had personal websites yet, so it was great talking about why we have our sites and what kind of content we post. They seemed excited to create one for themselves too. We created a WhatsApp group to notify them about the next event and help them create their websites if they hadn’t done so by then. Since it was already past the time we had planned to stay, we took a picture and packed our things.
Since I didn’t want to take a month or more to publish about the event (like the last event post, which I only finished today), I sat on the couch and only got up after it was published. The about page final update will have to wait for another day 😅.
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