Not at all - am just curious about the mix of shorter posts and longer pieces and now I know it is micro.blog it all makes sense! Have tried to wrangle wordpress to do something similar but it isn't quite as elegant.

And no doubt way more than 1 day per week of productivity has been lost by people talking about it.

apparently the last one worked... I've always had a feeling pingbacks were always a bit flakey...

woo hoo!

I can't help myself, it's like a sickness.

I tend to host my WordPress in one place, and use Google to host my email. Unless you mean the sending of Wordpress emails? For that I use Sendlayer.

My WordPress host of choice is to use DigitalOcean in combination with SpinupWP - happy to discuss, but as a non-techie it works for me.

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