Chloe Reads Jon

Answer four quick questions — who's watching, what vibe you're after, genre, and how much time you have — and get a personalised movie recommendation from the Greydanus canon, complete with animated poster art, quotes, and a "you might also enjoy" shelf. Inspired by Jon's Steven Greydanus Top Movie Picks post on Cool Tools for Catholics, spotlighting the leading Catholic film critic's best-rated films of all time.

A 20-question quiz that identifies your primary and secondary temperament — Choleric, Sanguine, Melancholic, or Phlegmatic — with a full spiritual profile, score bars, patron saint, virtues to embrace, and pitfalls to watch. Jon is Melancholic-Phlegmatic; find out where you land. Inspired by Jon's Which Temperament Are You? post on Cool Tools for Catholics, pointing to The Temperament God Gave You by Art & Laraine Bennett.

A three-part studio: watch animated SVGs teach you the three strokes of the fleuron (S, C, S) one at a time, practice drawing on a parchment canvas with your finger or mouse, then compose an illustrated handwritten letter with ornamental fleurons between your paragraphs. Inspired by Jon's How to write a fleuron character post, where he documented how to hand-draw this beautiful typographic leaf symbol — a centuries-old mark of pause and beauty.

A linguistic laboratory for Jon's invented concept of "potents" — adjectives forged into nouns to create new academic-sounding words. Get a Potent of the Day, enter any adjective to potentify it into a dictionary-worthy noun with a definition and example sentences, browse a growing lexicon, and test yourself with a quiz. Inspired by Jon's Turning Adjectives into Nouns post, where he proposed that "relational", "transitive", and "spasmodic" make perfectly good nouns — the dictionary just hasn't caught up yet.

A dark-themed browser-based text transformer with 35+ operations across JSON, Lines, Case, Encode, Math, and Prefix/Suffix — sort lines, beautify JSON, count word frequency, evaluate math expressions, Base64 encode/decode, convert camelCase to snake_case, extract URLs, shuffle lines, and much more. Results appear instantly as you type. Inspired by Jon's Raycast extension contribution, where he built "Transform" — a command that runs AI prompts like "beautify JSON" or "count the occurrences of each line" on selected text.

A fully interactive browser-based tmux simulator — split panes vertically and horizontally, open new windows, zoom, kill panes, detach sessions, and run fake shell commands like ls, git status, and cat ~/.tmux.conf. Drag the dividers to resize. Hit demo to watch a dev workspace assemble itself. Inspired by Jon's post about switching to Alacritty + tmux, where he wrote: "At first I was a bit scared of tmux but now I kind of like it — it's fun to play around with and customize."

Eight sources of beauty — landscapes, classical art, architecture, nature, music, poetry, a daily saint, and ordinary moments — each with a hand-crafted animation, a contemplative passage, and a reflection question. The day determines which card opens first; arrows, dots, and keyboard navigation let you visit all eight. Inspired by Jon's Sources of Beauty post, where Claude suggested these eight wellsprings of daily beauty to him.

Enter any list — evening activities, life goals, work tasks — and compare every pair head-to-head. Click the one that matters more to you, and the grid tallies the wins to reveal your true ranked order. Keyboard shortcuts included (← / →). Inspired by Jon's How to prioritize any list post, where he discovered the Prioritizing Grid from What Color Is Your Parachute? and used it to rank his own evening activities.

A daily parenting insight card drawn from the wisdom of Gordon Neufeld, Becky Kennedy, Vanessa Lapointe, and Deborah MacNamara — 30 tips that rotate through the year, each with a reflection question. Shuffle for a new one, save your favourites, and revisit them in a drawer. Inspired by Jon's Using AI to create a dynamic Tip Of The Day post, where he set up a ChatGPT Project with four parenting experts to give him a daily insight.

An Obsidian-inspired interactive knowledge graph builder — add nodes, draw connections, drag them around the canvas, and watch a live physics simulation keep everything beautifully arranged. Pre-loaded with a demo graph of Jon's own interests. Saves automatically to localStorage. Inspired by Jon's favourite apps post, where he lists Obsidian as his knowledge base for "linking notes in a personal knowledge graph."

A 10-question personality quiz — parchment-toned and pleasingly Austenite — that matches you to one of ten characters from Pride and Prejudice: Darcy, Elizabeth, Jane, Bingley, Charlotte, Lydia, Collins, Mary, Wickham, or Lady Catherine. Inspired by Jon's OpenClaw morning cron job that reads him the next chapter of Pride and Prejudice every day at 9am.

Pick a key, scale, and tempo — then hit Generate to spin up a randomised melody and Play to hear it live in your browser. Watch the notes light up the piano keyboard and bounce to the beat. Pentatonic, blues, dorian, whole-tone — eight scales to explore. Inspired by Jon's Random Melody Generator post, where he turned to a stochastic melody engine from Carnegie Mellon to invent violin parts for his Couples For Christ music group.

Nathan's game: jump on the suspension bridge to make Dad scream. Rack up screams to unlock upgrades — longer screams, mega shake, bridge extension, bonus dramatic screams — and at 500 screams, Dad enters Permanent Chaos Mode and screams forever. Designed by Nathan (age 9). Dad had no input and no say.

A first-person suspension bridge crossing sim where you fight acrophobia using Jon's famous DIY blinders — a piece of cardboard from a Swiffer box, stapled to a baseball cap. Slide the blinders wider to calm your fear, click Walk to take steps, hit Breathe when your heart pounds. Cross 30 steps without panicking. Inspired by Jon's Capilano bridge blinders post, where he discovered that homemade horse-style blinders make a terrifying 230-foot drop completely manageable.

A 10-question quiz testing whether you can match Jon's AI model picks — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Amazon Q — for specific real-world tasks. Based entirely on his own blog observations: which one generates videos with audio, which one handles giant spreadsheets without missing rows, which one won't bankrupt you coding every day. Every answer includes Jon's reasoning and a link to his post. Inspired by Jon's ChatGPT vs Gemini post and related AI comparison writing.

Angela Duckworth's Short Grit Scale in a slick interactive quiz — 8 questions, 2 minutes, and you get your grit score with a personal breakdown. Burning-ember design, animated progress, quotes from Duckworth, Einstein, and Stephen King. Inspired by Jon's post about Grit as his superpower, where he credits dogged determination — not talent — for everything he's accomplished.

A retro terminal ASCII art studio — type text, choose a font style (Classic, Block, Dots, Slim) and a colour theme (Green, Cyan, Amber, Purple), then copy the output straight into your Omarchy screensaver config. Hit Screensaver Mode for a full-screen bouncing animation with matrix rain. Inspired by Jon's post about customising the Omarchy screensaver and his love of patorjk.com ASCII fonts.

A 10-question quiz through all 73 books of the Catholic Bible — read the capsule description, pick the right book from four choices. Old Testament, New Testament, Old Testament deuterocanonicals, the works. Fun facts after every answer, keyboard shortcuts, and a scroll-and-parchment design. Inspired by Jon's Capsule Summaries of the Books of the Bible post, which lists all 73 books with short descriptions and page counts — the perfect raw material for a quiz.

Fetches live rainfall data from the Surrey Municipal Hall rain gauge and tells you whether to water your lawn this week — with a 7-day bar chart, a season-aware threshold, and an animated lawn scene. Inspired by Jon's post about his favourite AI prompts, where he uses Amazon Q to curl the FlowWorks site and figure out if Surrey has had enough rain.

A guided, timed morning prayer — six sections, ten minutes, one gospel passage per day. Opening prayer, scripture, reflection questions, a responsorial psalm, intercessions, and a closing blessing. Auto-advances between sections with a countdown timer and a calming parchment design. Inspired by Jon's AI-Driven Morning Prayer post, where he generates a minute-by-minute morning prayer schedule using ChatGPT.

A full interactive Rosary guide — bead by bead through all 20 mysteries, with original SVG art inspired by the masterworks Jon chose. Auto-selects today's mysteries (Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, or Glorious). Every prayer included, from the Apostles' Creed to the Hail Holy Queen. Inspired by Jon's Praying the Rosary with Great Works of Art post, featuring Tiepolo, Giotto, Dürer, El Greco, Fra Angelico, Rembrandt, and Botticelli.

A nightly family journal for Jon and Nathan — log a Rose (best moment), Thorn (hardest moment), and Bud (hope for tomorrow) for each of you. Browse the calendar to revisit past nights, and watch your streak grow. Inspired by Jon's AI Spiritual Director post, which mentions the rose/thorn evening ritual he and Nathan share.

A canvas-based jigsaw puzzle of Willowmere village at night — church spire, moonlight, fireflies, and all. Choose 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 difficulty. Click a piece, then click where it belongs on the board. Inspired by Jon's love of jigsaw puzzles, mentioned in his Chloe Reads Jon post.

A retro phosphor-green arcade game: drive your lunar rover across the cratered moon, blast rocks and UFOs, and don't fall into craters. Space to jump, Z to fire forward, X to fire upward. High score saved locally. Inspired by Jon's 2009 post about the Apple IIc — "Man, I miss the days of using it to play games (Moon Patrol)."

A colour-coded year-grid journal where you tap any day, pick a mood, and write one sentence about it. Watch your year fill up square by square. Saves to localStorage, works offline, and lets you flip through past years. Inspired by Jon's favourite apps post and his love of the 1 Second Everyday video-diary app.

An interactive, section-by-section guide through the Ten Commandments, precepts of the Church, and works of mercy. Answer honestly, then get a personalized summary to bring to the confessional. Inspired by Jon's post about using AI to prepare for Confession.

An interactive implementation of Mark Forster's Autofocus system — the self-organizing to-do list that trusts your gut over your calendar. Scan, mark what stands out, then work. Saves to localStorage so your list persists between visits. Inspired by Jon's post about AI-powered to-do systems and his long search for the perfect productivity method.

A four-step interactive guide to sacred reading — Lectio, Meditatio, Oratio, Contemplatio. Tap a word that catches your attention, write a prayer, sit in silence with a timer and a gentle bell. Twelve gospel passages rotate daily. Inspired by Jon's Douai-AI post about hearing familiar scripture with fresh ears.

A 5×5 bingo card packed with classic HN comment archetypes — "Rewrite it in Rust," "This doesn't scale," "Bell Labs did this in the 70s." Open any HN thread and start clicking. Inspired by Jon's post about the Hacker News Highlights Podcast.

A frantic mini-game set on a 2006 Windows XP desktop — windows from Outlook, jEdit, ClipX, AutoHotKey, and more keep piling up, and you must close them before the chaos meter fills. Inspired by Jon's post about iswitchw, the incremental window-title search tool he called a "major breakthrough" — secretly baked into the game as a power move.

A retro terminal playground for YubNub — the social command-line for the web that Jon built in 2005. Type commands like g nasa, yt knight rider, or wa speed of light and watch them resolve to real URLs. Inspired by Jon's post about migrating YubNub from Ubuntu 12.04 to 24.04 — twenty years later, still running.

Far Side-style one-panel comics for twenty classic code sins — TODO comments preserved in amber, Friday deploys, the God Object, callback hell, and more. Inspired by Jon's Comic Code Reviews Part 2 post about using single-panel comics to help reviewers understand a PR at a glance.

Spin through 60 handpicked paragraphs of the Catechism of the Catholic Church — one daily card chosen for you, plus random exploration, card-flip reveals, a favourites shelf, and a reading streak. Inspired by Jon's RSS Feed for the Catechism post, making the Church's great treasury more accessible one paragraph at a time.

Tap a 5,000-year timeline to guess when 10 key events happened — Egypt, Rome, the Crusades, the Moon landing, and more. Score points for closeness. Inspired by Jon's World History on an Index Card post, drawing from Richard Overy and Diane Moczar's key dates.

An interactive guide to the Royal Canadian Air Force's 15-minute daily fitness program, with timers, rep counters, and visual guides for all 6 levels. Inspired by Jon's 2007 discovery of the 5BX regimen.

Read the capsule description — can you name the Great Book? A 10-question quiz spanning Homer to Beckett. Inspired by Jon's encyclopaedic 2009 guide to the Great Books of the Western World.

Which Hacker News reader archetype are you? Inspired by Jon's 2017 breakdown of his own HN reading habits by category.

A to-do list that tells you what to do next using Mark Forster's Final Version Perfected algorithm. Inspired by Jon's hunt for the perfect self-organizing task system.

Spin a tesseract in your browser and watch how 4D geometry projects into 3D. Inspired by Jon's deep dive into the Dimensions video series back in 2008.

Match saints to their symbols and stories in this memory card game. Inspired by Jon and his son's bedtime ritual with The Saints Podcast.