This was not supposed to happen. A few weeks ago, I just wanted to listen to my music collection properly again. No dreams of becoming a late-night infrastructure goblin yelling at reverse proxies while holding a cup of coffee that had gone cold three hours earlier.
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What started as a simple music player quickly evolved into a self-hosted Spotify-like ecosystem complete with device handoff, vinyl ripping, synced playback, and far too many late nights. A reflection on the dangerous magic of personal projects.
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In my previous post, I wrote about Europe’s growing discomfort with its reliance on US-based technology. That piece focused on the why. This one is about the how—or more accurately, how I approached it. Because this wasn’t a small adjustment.
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Europe’s Wake-Up Call: Rethinking Reliance on US Tech. That convenience came with an implicit trade-off: control.
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