⚡️ 24AUG2025: A Lesser Goetic Demon

Happy Sunday everyone!

This week, I've been playing with Hank Green's Focus Friend for my phone downtime, zoning out to Lemo FM, making fun "cyber signatures," watching vintage samurai movies on the big screen, getting on the waitlist for a Popcorn eSIM, contemplating getting a Daytripper to use for pranks and mischief around my (home) office, and getting stoked for the new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe side-scrolling 2D brawler.

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Last year I started experiencing some pretty strong bouts of anxiety, and quickly deduced that it was closely linked to my caffeine intake, which was, to say the least, extremely high. I cut way back but found myself missing the ritual of making coffee throughout the day and the taste of my favorite beverage.

Right around this time, I stumbled across Wimp Decaf and was immediately drawn in by both the chill lifestyle espoused by the brand and its founder, as well as the fact that it was the first decaf coffee I'd had that didn't taste like flavorless old decaf.

This is legitimately good coffee, just without the heart palpitations. I like to mix it in 50:50 with my other favorite full caff beans in the morning, letting me sip more coffee for longer with less stress on my system.

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💡 Kasa Matter Smart Light Switch - A few years back, I installed smart dimmer light switches throughout the house, and have since suffered through all kinds of anomalous lighting issues that had the family wondering if maybe we'd accidentally invoked some lesser Goetic demon that communicated exclusively via flickering lights. Turns out, a bunch of our light fixtures are not compatible with dimmer switches. Whoops. Over the last month, I've been gradually switching all the troublesome lights over to these cheap smart switches from Kasa and have been very happy with them. They look nice, are compatible with Siri / Alexa / Google Assistant, all without a special hub thanks to their being Matter certified, and you can buy a 3-pack for just $45.

📹 Mira - Video Journal + AI for iOS - Indie developer, Jay, released a great-looking privacy-focused video journaling app this week. Mira has you recording ~30-60 second videos to document your thoughts, feelings, and recollections of the day, and then uses on-device AI models to transcribe and perform sentiment analysis to catalog your mental and emotional states. One of the best parts, in my humble opinion, is that nothing leaves your device, but Jay still takes advantage of app intents and Spotlight search to help you make the most of your entries.

🏃🏽‍♂️‍➡️ Bevel Health Dashboard for iOS - Bevel Health Dashboard brings you almost all the power of Whoop but without the heavy investment in yet another wearable. Bevel pulls data from Apple Health whether it's being drawn from your Apple Watch or an Oura Ring, etc., to give you insightful and well-composed analytics for strain, recovery, sleep, nutrition, and more. I've played with a few apps like this, but this one has one of the cleaner and more practical user interfaces. And I also particularly like the included nutrition scoring leveraging AI. I am a week in but already enjoying the data and how it's presented more than most other similar offerings I've tried from Whoop and Oura.

🤖 Cobot Agentic AI for iOS - Cobot is an app currently in beta that markets itself as a todo app that also gets things done. It does this by combining LLM smarts with agentic capabilities that leverage APIs for everything from Weather and News to things like Github, Notion, Canva, Square, and more. Once plugged into the various services of your choosing, it then allows you to build powerful automations that run at scheduled times like—"Every morning at 7am, send me a breakdown of the weather and my schedule, and a prioritized list of outstanding To-Do's from my various Notion projects, with suggestions for what time during the day I could tackle them." Cobot runs both as a web app and as a very clean and functional iOS app in TestFlight for subscribers.

☕ Keepcup Glass Travel Coffee Mug - I saw a woman in line at my favorite North Austin coffee truck rocking one of these mugs and immediately went down a rabbit hole online to try and find it. It's super compact, looks great, and I love the hardened glass that lets you quickly see how low you're getting on coffee/tea.

That's it for this week! My thanks again to Wimp Decaf for sponsoring this week's Report, go try them out and use HIRO20 checkout for 20% off!