HansaStack is being built in the open as a personal learning project. It currently goes to a handful of colleagues while the editorial process and the infrastructure are worked out. It is not yet a finished publication, and there is no schedule anyone should rely on.
Saying so plainly seems better than pretending otherwise.
What it covers
Technology in the eight countries around the Baltic Sea, read through the lens of European digital sovereignty. Startups and research, open source and the people maintaining it, public-sector technology decisions, and the slow question of what Europe runs its own infrastructure on.
Sources are read in their original languages — Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Danish, German, Swedish, Estonian, Finnish — because the English-language coverage of this region arrives late, when it arrives at all.
Two things
- Watch — a daily brief. At most five headlines from the last 24 hours, readable in under two minutes. Assembled automatically and labelled as such; no editorial judgement is claimed for it.
- The weekly issue — a dozen or so items chosen by a person, with a longer piece on one story. Still in development.
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How it is built
The project argues that European infrastructure is sufficient for real work, so it is held to that standard itself. Every part of the running system is either European or open source.
| Hosting | OVHcloud, Poland |
| Feeds | FreshRSS, self-hosted |
| Language models | Mistral, France |
| Translation check | DeepL, Germany |
| Newsletter | Listmonk, self-hosted |
| Delivery | MailerSend, Lithuania |
No subscriber data ever reaches a language model. The models read news articles; they never see the list.