Going off of the description, since I currently can't watch videos or anything with audio:
> How one guy in his bedroom (kind of) beat all of PNG's combined multi-decade effort in one year, and why that's strange.
PNG is a 30 year old format and hasn't changed much over the years (as far as I am aware). PNG at it's core is still just some basic filters with DEFLATE on top. The decades of work would mostly be spend on optimizing the encoding speed and finding better heuristics for selecting filters. There is a lot more impressive codecs nowadays.
Apart from that I am still a big fan of QOI. It has amazing results for how simple the format is.
> How one guy in his bedroom (kind of) beat all of PNG's combined multi-decade effort in one year, and why that's strange.
PNG is a 30 year old format and hasn't changed much over the years (as far as I am aware). PNG at it's core is still just some basic filters with DEFLATE on top. The decades of work would mostly be spend on optimizing the encoding speed and finding better heuristics for selecting filters. There is a lot more impressive codecs nowadays.
Apart from that I am still a big fan of QOI. It has amazing results for how simple the format is.