Matteo Papadopoulos

Co-Founder @ DatoCMS and Cantiere Creativo.
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[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

@coorasse @datocms Fantastico! 🤩🧡

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Hey rails friends, this is a great story to read!

[DatoCMS @datocms]

Had an increddddible chat with @coorasse on their work with DatoCMS and Rails.

Dive in, this one's a banger 👇

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Superb!

[DatoCMS @datocms]

Translating fields is annoying. We get it. 😩

So Marcelo just launched a sweet plugin for AI Translations that can translate any field. Any. Field.

Including Structured Text. Including Nested Blocks. Including Asset Metadata. You get the idea.

👇

https://t.co/lwBa4bdSRT

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Team Pandoro, no question about it! By the way, it’s such an honor to be part of the DatoCMS team. Huge goals for such a small team, year after year! 👏🧡

[DatoCMS @datocms]

As always, bossman @steffoz continues the tradition of reflecting on what we've achieved this year.

So as we get busy fighting about Pandoro v. Panettone (🇮🇹🍰🤌), check out some of the milestones we've hit together!

See you in the next one 🫶🏽

https://t.co/4ybObYdM8o

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Love it

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[DatoCMS @datocms]

Say 👋 to Asset Collections in DatoCM️S!

A LOT of you shared the need to have better organization in the CMS.

So, from today, you can create asset collections and sub-collections in DatoCMS!

Full deets on https://t.co/e1Gg8YeKiv

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Come on, guys, it's not just about #DX, code and APIs! Take care of your editors too! They're the ones using the #CMS every day! 🧡

https://t.co/sMWo6ljI5k

#headless #ux @datocms

[DatoCMS @datocms]

🛳️ As we wrap up another cycle, we've put together the greatest hits of what we've been shipping out the past few weeks 👇

TLDR in the thread.

Looking for the web version? Here's the deets in the Newsletter - https://t.co/WPSoQhgi0g

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

@jasonfried Amen.

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

This is fantastic! Try the product, no sign up, no credit cards, test everything from the CMS to a live frontend preview.

Show and let your costumers test their new CMS! In 5 seconds.

[DatoCMS @datocms]

Hate signing up to a new thing just to try it? 😫

Luckily, with us, you no longer need to unless you're sure!

Introducing try.datocms: https://t.co/QG6BHzd8pT

Whip up a project. Play around. Make things. Break things. Bring your devs and content peeps. Do whatever you want 👇

[DatoCMS @datocms]

This one's for the heavy @MuxHQ video users in DatoCMS ❤️

We're rolling out super hi-res 4K Video Streaming 💥

Effortlessly upload videos that can be streamed in 2K (1440p) or 4K (2160p), and the player serves the best resolution to your users.

Deets on https://t.co/XsYctVitkf

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

A good example of a "well-crafted job offer" worth considering. If you know someone in the field, show it to them! 🤗 Working at @datocms it's noooot baaaaaad, at all! 🤩

https://t.co/s9hpiWMBVT

[DatoCMS @datocms]

🫨 As we wrap up another cycle, we realised we shipped out SO much last month. So...

🥁 Here's another product roundup to summarize what's been up 🥁

Deets in the 🧵

Full summary on the 📧 preview https://t.co/9ZXyWYv4Vy

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

I do love my job!

[DatoCMS @datocms]

🤝 It's been a year since our very own bearded wizard @spleenteo 🧙‍♂️ launched a new version of our Partner Program.

100+ partners in 45+ countries later, he's got some wisdom (and learnings) to drop 👇

https://t.co/xdErPTqtku
https://t.co/xdErPTqtku

[DatoCMS @datocms]

With `loading=lazy` and `aspect-ratio` broadly supported, say 👋 to a new `<Picture />` element using up native browser capabilities.

If you're using React, it's a simple `<SRCImage />`, and for Vue and Svelte, a `<NakedImage />`.

Grab all the deets on https://t.co/LlPkqC5pXR

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Awesome! Scary awesome

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Japan is in my wishlist since ever. Now i must go

[DatoCMS @datocms]

Cool to see @jokull from @triptojapan_ pushing the boundaries of a CMS 👀

From managing site content to creating a personalized travel itinerary builder using @tursodatabase, GraphQL, Typescript, NextJS, @vercel and DatoCMS, this is a cool project!

https://t.co/j7hmXefjwX

[Matteo Papadopoulos @spleenteo]

Amazing!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship’s third flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/1u46r769Vp

[DatoCMS @datocms]

🔴 Adding to video DX, we thought about how we could make it a liiiiitle more straightforward to handle implementing the `<VideoPlayer />` component for you.

👋 hello new <VideoPlayer /> components for React, Vue and Svelte.

Deets for this on https://t.co/9ljN7zHYWp

[DatoCMS @datocms]

Wondering which GraphQL JS Clients to use? 💭

TLDR? We think it's Apollo Client, urql, graphql-request, Relay, and graphql-hooks.

Even if you weren't wondering that but we piqued your interest, check out our deep dive into these 5 on the DatoCMS blog 🔖
https://t.co/71vL7Am0s9