Welcome to my website!

Hello and welcome to my website ^v^ My name is Hexaitos (or just Hex). I am a (non-binary) bateleur eagle from Germany and I live in a mystical city that is rumoured not to exist. I am also a therian which is something I definitely need to write more about on this website at some point. Just don’t call me a human, please.

Also, because this has shocked some people before, my name does actually have a meaning! The -aitos is just an uncommon transliteration of the Ancient Greek word for eagle (ἀετός, aetos) and Hex- is from hexadecimal and also just because I thought it sounded cool.

I like working with computers (especially Linux, currently on EndeavourOS) and networks, playing (video) games, learning languages (I speak German, Swedish and English pretty well and know a good chunk of Ancient Greek), taking photos and a bunch of other things, depending on what I am currently fixated on. I, obviously, also really like birds with birds of prey being my favourite – but any bird is good. I also want to get into VR soon-ish. I am also a big fan of FOSS and self-hosting things.

As my actual job, I make computers go brrr (well, sometimes at any rate). I currently work as as systems and network administrator at a small ISP.

If you want to get in touch, look at the contact page! You can find me on plenty of websites or just send me an email – I am always happy to talk to new people – or critters! I don’t usually bite. Unless you want me to >:3

I also have a page that contains a bunch of modern (and old!) 88x31 website buttons, go check it out here! It contains both general-purpose buttons and buttons for specific websites.

As of March 2025, this site runs entirely on OpenBSD in an effort to move all of my servers over to OpenBSD for no reason other than that I wanted to try it out! ^v^ You can find more about the tech that powers this site and the technology I use in general over on the tech section of this site.

This website is still very much a work-in-progress and it was last updated on the following day: 23 March 2025. I also have a blog where I will be posting things mostly about computers, games and birds (who’d’ve thunk?). If you want to link to my website, you can use the the button below :3

Other projects

bateleur.org

A mirror of hexaitos.com, .eu and .de (for now).

gemini://terathopius.com

This is my Gemini capsule. Gemini is an alternative network protocol (like HTTP) and you will need a special browser to be able to see it. There is an HTTP proxy of my Gemini capsule that you can access through https://terathopius.com, however.

git.hexaitos.eu

My own instance of Forgejo where you can find the source code not only of my websites but also my other projects.

birds.bateleur.org

A small website that I made that displays a random image of a bird of prey from Wikimedia Commons. It also has an API that you can send a GET request to. I am working on remaking it in Rails (it’s currently running on Sinatra).

social.bateleur.org

My own GoToSocial instance, mostly for my own projects like the bot listed below and a backup account.

@botofprey@social.bateleur.org

A Fediverse / Mastodon bot that posts a random photo of a bird of prey from Wikimedia Commons every six hours. It uses the API of birds.bateleur.org to get its data.

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