The Manta saddle looks very different to any other bicycle saddle I have seen. The manta saddle supports the rider with nine slightly springy plastic arms, of which the front four pivot and so move with the rider as they pedal. On a recent two week cycling tour in France I lost track of the number of people who stared at it, poked it or asked me about it ( unfortunately my French knowledge limited my replies to “très confortable!

My coding experience has mostly been away from website development, so I decided to set up a simple personal website to play around with some web technologies. The multitude of different web frameworks, CMSs, hosting providers etc is pretty overwhelming, and after a not particularly rigorous or systematic search I settled on a Jamstack approach with the Hugo static site generator hosted on Cloudflare Pages. What drew me to this stack was:

My coding experience has mostly been away from website development, so I decided to set up a simple personal website to play around with some web technologies. The multitude of different web frameworks, CMSs, hosting providers etc is pretty overwhelming, and after a not particularly rigorous or systematic search I settled on a Jamstack approach with the Hugo static site generator hosted on Cloudflare Pages. What drew me to this stack was: