Archive - Vinnie’s Views

Self Hosting Your Substack

If I believe in self-hosting, why am I still publishing on Substack?

Aug 12 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

Back It Up Jack

When the wheels come off, what you gonna do?

Aug 9 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

A Bit Short of a Byte

If you want to make it your own, you have to build it.

Aug 3 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

Self-Hosting Without the Exposure

How to access your self-hosted applications with Cloudflare while keeping your home network private.

Aug 1 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

July 2026

Adding MQTT to pIoTServer

Connecting Zigbee devices to my self-hosted internet of things ecosystem.

Jul 29 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

A Dashboard for My Garden Irrigation

A Web-Based Operations Console for My Garden Irrigation System

Jul 18 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

Taking Back the Infrastructure

Self-Hosting the Services I Use Every Day

Jul 14 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

I’m a Pushover for Self-Hosting

Adding remote notifications without Apple’s infrastructure.

Jul 12 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

We Don’t Need No Stinking Ecosystem

An index of the articles documenting my move from Apple’s ecosystem to self-hosted alternatives

Jul 12 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

Reading DS18B20 Temperature Sensors on the Pi Without OWFS

Talking to the DS2482-100 I²C-to-1-Wire bridge directly

Jul 11 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

Garden Irrigation Evolution

“Stuff’s getting better. Stuff’s getting better every day.”

Jul 9 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

May 2026

Tangled Up in Wires

How I built a RS-485 network to control my Farm Irrigation

May 11 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

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