Posts tagged: germany
Sovereignty Has No Free Tier
I tried to run a side project without a single US company touching it. Turns out Cloudflare's free tier makes building almost free, and nothing in Europe or Germany comes close. That missing free tier is quietly killing companies before they're ever founded.
July 10, 2026I Keep Writing That Europe Is Losing. Munich Just Switched On 10,000 GPUs.
I've written a run of gloomy posts about European sovereignty. Then I actually added up what got built and funded this year, and I owe the continent at least a partial apology. Emphasis on partial.
July 17, 2026Soofi Is Germany's First Open Model. It Comes With a Form, Of Course.
The first sovereign German open model was trained on the Munich cloud I just praised, tops the German benchmarks, and is arguably the most genuinely open thing in this whole story. To download it I had to fill in a form and wait. One step forward, two steps back, and I say that as a German.
August 13, 2026Sorry, This Repo Only Speaks German
Germany is short more than a hundred thousand IT people, our cities are full of developers who work in English all day, and our public sector code politely locks them all out. The official language argument is real, and it's also being applied to the wrong layer.