## Casual Chats

Conversations with partners and customers working on some really cool use cases with DatoCMS

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###### On trading templates for topography

San Rita built their agency website as an interactive 3D topographic map, complete with trails, fishing spots, and zero black or white pixels. We caught up with Alexis to fish for more details 🎣

](https://www.datocms.com/casual-chats/on-trading-templates-for-topography.md)[

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###### On mirroring bold design in structured content

We caught up with Mees to learn how Merlin maps bold design into structured content, using modular blocks, fragments, and lean assets.

](https://www.datocms.com/casual-chats/on-mirroring-bold-design-in-structured-content.md)[

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###### On unlocking unique use cases with Java and DatoCMS

We caught up with Lorenzo from Azimut Marketplace, who's been using Java to do some pretttty cool stuff through DatoCMS.

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###### On shipping rapidly from one project to the Nuxt

We caught up with Andrija from Trampolin to talk about Boiler - their dope Nuxt/Dato boilerplate.

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###### On helping shape the GraphQL Community

Meet the man and the team that helped design the GraphQL Explorer that we all know and love!

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###### On building visually stunning projects at scale

See how Webcore uses DatoCMS and Nuxt to build fast, visually complex websites, without breaking structure. Think parallax, video, scroll magic... all handled cleanly, at scale, and without killing performance.

](https://www.datocms.com/casual-chats/on-building-visually-stunning-projects-at-scale.md)[

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###### On powering offline wayfinding

L+R used DatoCMS to build a banger of a wayfinding app for Printemp's flagship new store on One Wall Street in NY. Here's the behind the scenes.

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###### On building Astro themes for multi-brand websites

If there's one thing multi-brand companies struggle with, it's consistency and flexibility across all their websites. Mojtaba's got a fix for that.

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###### On going beyond the CMS with Plugins

De Voorhoede's easily published 10+ custom plugins for the DatoCMS ecosystem. So we caught up with Victor, their "plugin guy", to talk about some of their greatest hits.

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###### On keeping things simple because static ain't dead

Unlike many chasing the latest frontend trends, Virgil takes a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach: if a website doesn’t need complex JS, it shouldn’t have them.

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###### On flexibility, extensibility, and \`head-start\`

We chat with Jasper on De Voorhoede's unique approach in maintaining 15+ plugins for DatoCMS, as well as OSSing their frontend agnostic head-start package.

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###### On going beyond the Jamstack with \`dato-rails\`

Catch up with Alessandro as he talks about the thoughts behind dato-rails, what it does, and where it's headed.

](https://www.datocms.com/casual-chats/renuo-and-the-birth-of-dato-rails-for-ruby-on-rails-projects.md)