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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

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