A working almanac Thursday, 12 November 2026
Reviery

Vol. I  ·  Field notes, published from Germany

Things I learned the long way, written down so you can take the short one.

Reviery is a working almanac: practical, carefully checked notes, published as I go.

Latest entry

Where the EU’s Christmas Eve digital ID deadline comes from

I went looking for the sentence in EU law that makes digital identity wallets due on 24 December 2026 and couldn't find it. Here's where that date comes from, what the wallet is meant to be, and how close anyone seems to be.

12 November 2026 · 8 min read

Earlier entries

  1. The EU law for when your bank’s IT falls over

    EU financial firms filed 3,383 reports of serious IT trouble in 2025. I went looking for the law behind that count, and found DORA, what it asks of banks and insurers, and why Amazon and Microsoft now answer to EU financial watchdogs.

    6 min read

  2. Why is the EU giving products a passport?

    A ban on destroying unsold clothes led me to a much bigger EU idea, the digital product passport. What it is, who gets one first, and how much of it is already running.

    5 min read

  3. So what actually is the digital euro?

    I couldn't explain it beyond "some kind of euro on your phone", so I went through what the ECB and the EU institutions have actually published. Here's the basic picture.

    7 min read
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