Moving the blog stack to Europe (kind of)

AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). × AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). There’s a version of this story where I move everything to Europe in one go and write a triumphant post about digital sovereignty. The actual version is less clean. As of this week, the site you’re reading runs from a small Hetzner box in Nuremberg, and most of the supporting services moved with it. Some of the reasoning fed into my latest essay: How DORA Made Sovereignty a Bank Problem. Why now Two things converged. First, GitHub Pages started feeling more like a constraint than a freebie: no access logs, a hard cap on file size, no control over response headers without bolting on a Cloudflare Worker, no place to run anything dynamic next to the static site. Second, the EU jurisdictional question stopped feeling academic. Newsletter subscriber records, draft posts, analytics counters, backup archives: all of it sat in US-controlled storage by…