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PNL Reader 2.0: read quietly or read aloud, it's your choice

Hi, language learners and fellow ebookworms! Hope you’re all having a good weekend, or at least finding a little time to read between everything else. I’m excited to announce that PNL Reader 2.0 is......

Posted by River Young on 2025-10-25

🎉🎉🎉PNL Pro is finally here, check out the 90% off Launch Deal! 🚀

After a long journey, I’m thrilled to announce that PNL Pro is now live with version v6.0.0 on Dictionariez! It took time and care to get here, and I’m so excited to share this milestone with you.......

Posted by River Young on 2025-10-07

Coding: Google Search Console reports duplicate field url

Google Search Console reports a critical issue ⚠️ for pnl.dev: a ‘duplicate URL property’ is preventing my website from being indexed 🚫. It turns out the problem was caused by a small HTML attribu......

Posted by River Young on 2025-07-13

Captionz - major update to make youtube more fun and useful.

Hej! Hope you had an awesome weekend. Just wanted to share an update I’m really excited about: I’ve been working on Captionz, and it just got a major upgrade! 🎉 It now supports language-specific s......

Posted by River Young on 2025-06-29

Ordböcker: The all-in-one dictionary app for learning Swedish.

Hi, I hope you’ve had a great week of learning languages and coding! As someone learning Swedish myself, I know how tough it can be — especially if you’re shy like me and feel awkward speaking with......

Posted by River Young on 2025-06-15

PNL Reader: A shining new reader app on browsers

Dear Netizens and Web Novel Enthusiasts, I’m excited to announce that PNL Reader is finally here! After a week of development sprint, it just hits the first milestone, and I’m already using it to r......

Posted by River Young on 2025-06-10

Just got a big donation from an admirable man for my open-source projects

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Posted by River Young on 2021-01-18

Spotify on Chrome

Install chrome web store Spotify on ChromeA mini Spotify player on Chrome which might save you some time. Spotify has a really cool feature called Spotify Connect. So what is it? Here is a good......

Posted by River Young on 2021-01-16

Captionz: learn on YouTube with fun

Ever wanted to watch YouTube videos to learn a language? I made a site called Captionz might be helpful.As I am learning English and Japanese, YouTube has so many great resources for learning lang......

Posted by River Young on 2020-12-21

I put a spotify player on Dictionariez

One day when I was trying to make Dictionariez more user friendly, I saw that Spotify has provided a web SDK. A silly idea occurred to me, why not make a spotify player on Dictionariez?After I di......

Posted by River Young on 2020-12-02