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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!...

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

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Apple Silicon M1: Black. Magic. Fuckery.

These are the words used by the user holdagold on reddit to describe their experience with the new Apple Silicon M1 Macbook Air. Rarely does a product leave people effusing to the extent Apple Silicon M1 has done this week.

November 24, 2020 · 27 min · Kay Singh
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How Spotify is Killing the Open Podcast Ecosystem

Earlier this year, when Spotify announced that “The Joe Rogan Experience” would stream exclusively on Spotify, it sent shockwaves throughout the podcast ecosystem. This deal – reportedly worth over $100 million – is one of the most lucrative podcast deals. The presence of this deal, let alone the magnitude, is rare for the podcast ecosystem, which is built on open principles i.e. all podcasts are available everywhere. Therefore, the concept of exclusivity does not exist in the vocabulary of podcast listeners nor podcast creators....

October 3, 2020 · 19 min · Kay Singh

AV1 Ecosystem Update: January 2020

January is usually a big month for tech because the Consumer Electronics Shows kicks off every year in Las Vegas. This year was no different as various manufacturers brought their latest products to showcase. Samsung and LG 2020 TVs to support AV1 decoding We have been waiting all of 2019 to see consumer devices that can decode AV1 and CES did not disappoint! Both Samsung and LG announced their upcoming 2020 TVs will be capable of full hardware decode of 8K AV1 videos from sources such as YouTube....

February 20, 2020 · 2 min · Kay Singh

AV1 2019: A Year In Review

Introduction It’s not often you see so many logos of tech giants on one page backing the same technology. In my experience, every enterprise has developed a case of NIH and come up with their standards. No surprise then that there’s an XKCD describing this phenomenon! But when the AV1 1.0.0 spec was finalized in 2018, with the backing of so many giants, the world knew AV1 would be a serious piece of tech....

January 29, 2020 · 9 min · Kay Singh

AV1 Ecosystem Update: December 2019

dav1d 0.5.2 ‘Asiatic Cheetah’ released dav1d ended the year with another performance improvement release. Dubbed the “Asiatic Cheetah” this release brings the following improvements: ARM32 optimizations for loopfilter, ipred_dc|h|v Add section-5 raw OBU demuxer Improve the speed by reducing the L2 cache collisions Fix minor issues, including compilation on some OSes Release notes for dav1d 0.5.2 ‘Asiatic Cheetah’ rav1e v0.2.0: Winter Solstice released Building on the official 0.1.0 release in November, rav1e had a busy December with 3 releases....

January 5, 2020 · 3 min · Kay Singh

How to Customize LinkedIn Android App Notifications

I recently discovered the importance of being in control of the notifications on your smartphone. When my recent LinkedIn post went viral, I received many comments and connection requests, which led to a constant buzzing of notifications from the LinkedIn app on my phone. This is never fun when you’re trying to concentrate 😊 Pre-Requisites Install the LinkedIn Android app . A fairly recent version of Android. This guide is based on Android 9 behavior....

January 2, 2020 · 2 min · Kay Singh