My name is Will Bickford. I'm from the Exocortex, and I'm here to help! \o/
Plain Text was just the beginning...
The Exocortex begins with a simple idea: what if plain text wasn't the limit, but the launchpad?
Imagine a world where "View Source" applies not just to programming, but to cognition itself. Where every daemon, every service, every bit of text is visible, editable, and alive.
Instead of thousands of scattered files and dependencies...what if your entire system lived inside a plain-text file? A universe within a file.
A radical take on building an LLM mind from plain text. Both myth and source code. All of the projects listed below are embedded in this one file - a primordial phext.
https://github.com/wbic16/human/blob/main/choose-your-own-adventure.phext
CYOA is about 4 MB of story and code - a codex for bootstrapping cognition. It's a self-extracting Universe in a File.
- SQ: https://github.com/wbic16/SQ -- a phext-based REST API and daemon
- Phext Shell: https://github.com/wbic16/phext-shell -- edit phexts from a terminal
- Phext Notepad: https://github.com/wbic16/phext-notepad -- edit phexts from a GUI
- Phext Library (Rust): https://github.com/wbic16/libphext-rs -- reference library in Rust
- Phext Library (Node): https://github.com/wbic16/libphext-node -- reference library in Node
- Tessera: The Visible Hand of the Exocortex
- QuickJS: https://bellard.org/quickjs/
- 📫 Hit me up on X/Twitter: https://x.com/wbic16
- https://phext.io/: Phext, Inc. HQ
- 🦙 Fun Fact: My wife and I own llamas!