⚡ 28JUN2026: Third Anniversary Edition

Happy Sunday everyone!

This week, I've been obsessing over this Hasselblad 203 S for sale that actually flew to space on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, enjoying this gaussian splat of Hobbiton, dreaming about a panoramic version of Fuji's X100, loving this massive software update to the Teenage Engineering KO-II, teasing the release of Capture v1.3, counting down the days till I can pick up my new record player cabinet, and attending a killer magic show in a speakeasy here in Austin.

As this issue marks the third birthday 🎉 of this newsletter, I thought I'd take a brief moment to thank each and every one of you for letting me take up a little bit of your inbox, feed reader, or bandwidth every week. All of your kind feedback, ideas for new things to check out, and constructive criticism help make this so fun to keep doing. If you make it down to the P.S. section, I've got a fun new (and free) part of the site I'm launching that I'll tell you about down there!

Note that some of the links in this issue of the Hiro Report are affiliate links and may earn the newsletter a small commission at no additional cost to you, but none of these are paid recommendations.

On to the good stuff!

• 🌬 FivePointFive: Breathwork for iOS - A few years back, I read Breath by James Nestor, and it had a massive impact on me, leading me to rethink everything about how I breathe, work out, and sleep. As I've been getting back into running the last few months, I have been looking for tools to help me improve my oxygen efficiency and VO2 max, and stumbled across FivePointFive last week. It's unique in that it's a breathwork app built specifically for athletes — not meditators or yogis (I am both of these things). While the app does offer some of the usual restorative box breathing-type exercises, it really stands out in also having some great breathing exercises to build up CO2 tolerance while you walk or run in place, working on breath holds, etc. You can even sync up your Apple Watch with the app to see how your heart handles the various exercises over time.
• 🛟 Etenwolf Air 3 - After seeing both Stephen and Nate recommend this thing, I've thrown it onto my summer supplies shopping list. The Etenwolf Air 3 is a small, egg-sized electric pump that inflates an air mattress or full-size pool floaty in about a minute and sucks it flat again in 40 seconds. The battery will fill up to 16 sleeping pads on a charge and doubles as a 600-lumen camping lantern. It apparently comes with five nozzles for everything from floaties to vacuum storage bags. The size and price alone make it seem like the perfect thing to have in a glove box or pool bag at all times.
• 🌐 Aside Browser for macOS - On Alex's recommendation, I'm checking out the Aside browser this week. It's yet another entry into the agentic browser space, sort of marrying the agentic browsing capabilities of Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's Atlas with the polish of the Browser Company's Dia. In my early testing, it's remarkably fast at doing web-based research and automations, and has a really interesting locally encrypted AI-friendly password manager that lets the agent log in to sites for you without sending your credentials off to third parties. Usual heavy privacy and security caveats apply with all these browsers, but it's fun to check out where the tech is going.
• 🌁 PhotoSweeper for macOS and iOS - Given the insane price of external hard drives these days, getting this app up and running has quickly climbed to the top of my "when I have some time to sit and focus" projects list— PhotoSweeper is a fast Mac and iOS app that hunts down duplicate and similar photos across your hard drives, Apple Photos, Lightroom library, etc., with adjustable rules that auto-mark which shot to keep in each group. I particularly like that it never deletes files outright; instead, it quarantines duplicates in the Trash or a special "rejected" collection.
• 💰 Ducat: Track expenses & subscriptions - Ducat is a unique take on an expense-and-subscription tracker built by Rahul from the excellent Hulry.net newsletter. Instead of auto-syncing your bank and guessing categories from merchant names, you log each transaction by typing it in plain English — "$4.99 comic from Dragon's Lair" — and its parser formats and tags it for you. It looks great, and I like the slight friction of having to slow down and type in your expenses so you really pay attention to your spending. It's got a two-week free trial and a strong privacy policy.

That's it for this week. May you find a gentle pleasant breeze at just the right time.