App Defaults
Late 2026 Edition
2026 was a tricky year! This list changed a lot!!!
Since 2025, I've been trying to move away from Apple apps and start using cross-platform apps. So I can choose between Apple and Android.
Unfortunately, my plan didnât go well. Committing to cross-platform apps means lots of subscriptions, and in the middle of this cost-of-living crisis it doesnât make much sense. And with sadness, I rolled back everything, and my App Defaults for 2026 are really close to a Default Apps golden trophy for Apple users!
Email, Calendar and Contacts Server
Fastmail
Apple iCloud+
Fastmail continues to be the best email, calendar and contact service on the interwebs. My decision to leave them was strictly financial.
Email Client
Fastmail
Apple Mail
Calendar Client
Fastmail
Apple Calendar
Contacts Client
Fastmail
Apple Contacts
To-Do
Personal: Things Apple Reminders
Family: Todoist CulturedCode Things
Notes
Personal: Bear Obsidian Apple Notes
Family: Apple Notes
Scribble: GoodNotes
Quick Notes: Iconfactory Tot
Word Processing
Spreadsheets
Budgeting and Personal Finance
Monzo Bank, Apple Numbers and Bobby
Cloud File Storage
Personal and family: Synology Drive and Apple iCloud Drive
Browser
Mac: Apple Safari and Google Chrome
iPhone and iPad: Quiche Browser and Apple Safari
Quiche is one of the best browsers ever. It is light, highly customisable and gives you easy control over enabling JavaScript or not. I hope they release a macOS version soon.
Bookmarks and Read It Later
GoodlinksRaindrop.io
Apple Safari and its Reading List
Chat
Apple Messages
Signal
Meta WhatsApp
Music
Player: Plexamp
Discovery: MusicHarbor and Qobuz
My Qobuz subscription ends in March 2027. After that, I will go old school: visit music stores and use YouTube as MTV from the 90s.
Photo Management
Synology Photos and Apple Photos
Photo Shooting
Apple Camera, Google Snapseed, Spectre and trying Very Good Cam
Podcasts
OvercastPocket Casts
Apple Podcasts
RSS and Social Media
Iconfactory Tapestry and Aniline Indigo
VPN
DNS
Password Management
1PasswordBitwarden
Apple Passwords
Maps
Apple Maps
Google Maps
I've always tried to use Apple Maps and contributed by reporting issues and etc. Unfortunately, I find it dangerous. It shows traffic lights where they don't exist, and sometimes where there is a roundabout. Not to mention when there is a roundabout, but Apple Maps doesn't show it. From what I read, it seems great in the US, but in the UK it is rubbish. I don't want to risk my life, so I chose Google Maps.
Diagramming
Typing Assistant
Font Management
Itâs 2026, and we still need this kind of app.
Mac Utilities
Downie
CleanMyMac
CleanShot 4.8
CleanupBuddy
PDF Expert
Pixel Perfect
Soulver 4
Mac App Launcher
Mac Menu Bar
Supercharge
Amphetamine
AlDente
Menu Bar Spacing
Other people have also shared their Default Apps inspired by the Podcast Hemispheric Views 097 - Duel of the Defaults! Click here to see the complete list. And you can also share the link to your list on this Hemispheric Chat topic.
I am back to YĆtei!
Months and months later I am back playing one of my favourite games!
This time Iâm playing the new DLC called The Echoes of Sekigahara.Â
My Brain doesnât remember how to play it, but we learn again on the go! đ
The sailboat
Migrating your data from 1Password to Bitwarden (including passkeys)
Thanks to password managers implementing the Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP), migrating data between password managers on iOS or iPadOS is much easier today, including better support for entry types and passkeys migration.
This is a quick guide about how to proceed with this migration, as Iâve noticed that people arenât very aware of it and are still using the old method of exporting a file from 1Password and importing it into Bitwarden.
Make sure you have Apple Passwords installed. It mediates the process, and I think it also provides the required APIs so the process works
Open 1Password and go to Settings
Go to Advanced
Under Export Data, touch on Start ExportÂ
Type your Account Name and touch on Approve Export
A screen explaining the next steps will appear, so read it and touch on Continue
Now itâs time to select the destination! Select Bitwarden
A confirmation screen will appear asking if you want to proceed exporting X items. To proceed, touch on Continue in Bitwarden
The Bitwarden app will open. Read carefully and complete the process.
A screen confirming how many entries were migrated appears, and the job is done! Now itâs time to update the AutoFill settings, install the browser extension, and youâre free from 1Password! đ
Dry Summer
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
â Lord Acton
Editing local variables
Windows admins can block you from updating local variables through the user interface. A way to get around that is to call the control panel module from the command prompt:
rundll32.exe sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables
Swapping Logitech MX Keys layouts
If you use the MX Keys with two different operating systems and what you're typing doesn't match what you see on screen, you may need to force it to use a different layout:
FN+P swaps Mac Layout to PC (hold for 3 seconds) FN+O swaps PC Layout to Mac (hold for 3 seconds)
Control by Garbage
Oh I can feel Iâve lost control,
You let your guard down,
You let the truth out.
View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/tekphloyd/20260805
Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles
What song makes you feel nostalgic for a time you never lived through?
View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/tekphloyd/20260713
If You Wait by London Grammar
What song do you turn to when you need to cry?
This song reminds me of some difficult times in the pastâŠ
View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/tekphloyd/20260712
Avoid 503 Service Unavailable error when running or debugging a Mule app locally
If you have API Autodiscovery in the Mule project, add the following argument to the âRun Configurationâ associated with the project.
-Danypoint.platform.gatekeeper=disabled
Download files using curl
Admin-managed Chromium browsers can block certain downloads. To get around that, you can download a file from a terminal using curl:
curl -L -o studio-brightness-plusplus.exe <https://github.com/LitteRabbit-37/Studio-Brightness-PlusPlus/releases/download/v1.1.0/studio-brightness-plusplus.exe
On Windows, this requires Git Bash
Git
Amending your last commit and pushing it to the remote branch
git commit --amend
git push --force origin
Discarding unstaged changes with git
git reset .
git checkout .
Fixing account link issue when pushing
git config --global --edit
Moving a branch to master
git checkout <other-branch>
git merge -s ours master
git checkout master
git merge <other-branch>
git push
Viewing the commit history
git log --oneline
Revert commit / Delete commit
git reset âhard HEAD~1
git push -f
Delete all tags
git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin
Delete all releases
brew install hub
hub release -f "%T (%S) %n" --include-drafts | grep " (draft)" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -t -n1 hub release delete
Link:Â Hub
Commit changes in a new branch
git stash
git checkout -b ânew branchâ
git stash pop
Discard local changes
git checkout -f
Merging existing commits
git reset --soft HEAD~n
git commit --amend -m "New commit message."
git push -f
Count starting from
0to define thennumber
Checkout pull request
git fetch origin pull/9/head:API-4021
Replace local repo with remote
git reset --hard origin/develop
Revert to a previous commit
git reset --hard 6e19e01470f9aec8854268722c84db3d811da7d8
git push -f origin master
Migrate a branch to another repo
cd current-repo
git checkout branch-to-move
git pull
git push url://new/repository.git branch-to-move:target-branch
Replace the main branch with another branch
git checkout other-branch
git merge -s ours main
git checkout main
git merge other-branch
git push
Switching remote URLs
git remote set-url origin <https://github.com/USERNAME/OTHERREPOSITORY.git>
Rollback commit
git reset --soft HEAD^
Amend the most recent commit message
git commit --amend
Ghost of YĆtei
Started: 30/11/2025
Completed: 28/03/2026
Platform: PlayStation 5
My rating: â
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Close to the end of the game, I didn't want to finish it because itâs so good, so I took a detour with Metroid Prime 4 in December and January.
I explored as much as I could, and at the end, I managed to complete 100% as I did with Ghost of Tsushima.
Ghost of YĆtei is definitely the updated version of Ghost of Tsushima, and I would recommend starting with this one if you've never played any of the games in the series. In Ghost of YĆtei, the story isn't as original as Ghost of Tsushima's, but everything else is better: graphics, music and gameplay.
Talking about the music, the soundtrack is a banger! Some days it stays on repeat while I work.
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
Share a song you feel was ahead of its time.
Itâs August 1966, and what is that on the radio? The Chemical Brothers? Maybe The Beatles had a DeLorean and went to 1997.
View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/tekphloyd/20260226
Comfortably Numb (Live) by Pink Floyd
What artist or band changed your music taste forever? Pick your favourite song of theirs.
When I watched Pink Floydâs Pulse concert on the telly in 1995, everything changed.
View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/tekphloyd/20260127
Special by Garbage
What was your favorite song in high school? Why did it resonate?
View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/tekphloyd/20260126
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
Started: 25/12/2025
Completed: 24/01/2026
Platform: Nintendo Switch 2
My rating: â
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Tried again to complete 100%, but there are some items that only appear once to scan, which I find very frustrating. đÂ