About Hex Index

Hex Index is a curated reading library built by Brian Mabry Edwards — a collection of long-form articles from across the web, enriched with Wikipedia deep dives and rewritten for enjoyable reading.

Every article is selected from independent publications and newsletters that reward careful attention. The library favors depth over breadth: pieces that take ten minutes or more to read, that explore ideas worth sitting with, that benefit from context you didn't know you needed.

How It Works

The library runs on a set of automated pipelines. New articles are ingested hourly from RSS feeds. For each article, the system identifies related Wikipedia topics, scrapes them, and rewrites the encyclopedic content as engaging essays — the kind of background reading that makes a good article great. Every illustration is generated specifically for its article.

The entire system is open source, built with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and a local language model running on a Mac Studio. The public site you're reading is static HTML served from GitHub Pages — no database, no server, no tracking.

About Brian

Brian writes about human-AI collaboration at LLuMinate, where he coined the term to describe "the act of writing with the assistance of large language models — the spark of human intention meeting the strange mirror of machine language." He explores vibe coding, rapid prototyping with Claude Code, and the craft of building software at the speed of thought.

He also makes music at jalopy.music.