Matteo Van den Broeck 10/8/26 Matteo Van den Broeck 10/8/26

I Bought Two Old Apple Xserves — And Found Their Previous Lives Inside

I bought two almost 20-year-old Apple Xserves mostly because I thought they were incredibly cool. What started as a retro-hardware purchase quickly turned into a complete ownership and security takeover.

Matteo Van den Broeck 9/28/26 Matteo Van den Broeck 9/28/26

My Hermes Agents Looked Healthy — But Couldn’t Actually Think

The gateways were running, the ports were listening and the agents still looked alive. But several of them could no longer perform inference. That failure changed how I define “healthy” for an AI agent.