Chloe Reads Jon

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

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 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.

A quiet, candlelit guide through all Ten Commandments for preparing your Confession — tap each commandment to see reflection questions, check what you want to bring, and see a clean summary at the bottom to take with you. Inspired by Jon's post about using AI for interactive confession prep.

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.