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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

Dictonariez: not just a dictionary app

It started with a simple dictionary tool on browsers, maybe the simplest one compared with a lot of other options.It started a long time ago as a side project. Then it turned out to be my most us......

Posted by River Young on 2020-11-18

Dictionariez supports Portuguese and Russian now with v2.4.0

Short video introductions about Portuguese and Russian support. Portuguese: Russian: It’s really straightforward. It might be the simplest dictionary app on the browsers. So my goal is to make it......

Posted by River Young on 2020-11-15

Share your reading with pals, using Dictionriez

With the launch of pnl.dev, you could share your reading with pals all over the world now.So let’s build this community together. Download Dictionariez now. ...

Posted by River Young on 2020-11-11

Read articles, look up new words and export to anki, the way I learn English

So I have been working on this open-source project Dictionariez for quite a while now. I would like to share with you that how it facilitates my language learning process. I love reading news. Whe......

Posted by River Young on 2020-11-11