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Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams: Here are 10 things I found

A weekend project that turned into discovering how Netflix is quietly revolutionizing streaming efficiency with AV1.

October 1, 2025 · 11 min · Kay Singh

Taking Microsoft's Calibri replacements for a spin

How do Calibri’s replacements compare? See some real world examples.

May 19, 2021 · 8 min · Kay Singh

Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 2: Local Playback

Apple M1 is an amazingly efficient piece of silicon. How much power do you think it consumes while playing 4K and 1080p videos in VLC player? Read on to find out.

May 8, 2021 · 7 min · Kay Singh

Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome

Apple M1 is an amazingly efficient piece of silicon. How much power do you think it consumes while streaming from YouTube or Netflix? Read on to find out.

April 2, 2021 · 9 min · Kay Singh

Philips Brilliance 4K UHD 27" Monitor Review

Hello internet friend! If you’ve landed here from an internet search hoping to find more info on this Philips monitor, then let me keep it short and save you some time.

February 26, 2021 · 3 min · Kay Singh

Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

Netflix put some serious design resources into its Annual Reports pre-2010. What changed?

February 3, 2021 · 3 min · Kay Singh

Apple Silicon M1 supports "billion of colors" aka HDR 10-bit output

When most people hear Apple in a sentence, their next thought is likely the color. Does Apple Silicon M1 output “billion colors”?

January 24, 2021 · 7 min · Kay Singh

How to get 4K 60 FPS working on an external monitor with Macbooks

Getting 4K 60 Hz output on a Macbook is more challenging than it needs to be. Here’s what to watch out for.

December 15, 2020 · 5 min · Kay Singh

Fixing "sed: command i expects \ followed by text" error

I ran into a very weird error today. While trying to automate the deployment for this blog, I needed to replace a string in a file. The internet tutorials [1, 2, 3, 4] told me that sed would be perfect for this job and the following command should work: sed -i 's/search_string/replace_string/' filename The Error However, I kept getting tripped up by the following error: sed: 1: "i2.html": command i expects \ followed by text I spent a bunch of time trying to make sure I escaped the right characters in my strings but the error was persistent! What a nuisance! 😭 ...

December 10, 2020 · 2 min · Kay Singh

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Upcoming ARM Chip That's Faster Than Apple Silicon M1

The release of Apple M1 Silicon has laid to rest many questions about whether ARM CPUs can go toe-to-toe with the best of the bunch from Intel and AMD. Can others replicate this?

December 9, 2020 · 11 min · Kay Singh