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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

NodeBB 3: mongodb 与 redis

前面说过，NodeBB 支持 mongodb 或 redis 作为存储数据库。这种使用 NoSQL 数据库的做法我很欣赏，有时候写插件要给数据库添加某个字段的时候非常方便，直接加就行。比如给 Topic 添加一个 externalLink 属性。其实 NodeBB 刚开始 0.x 版的时候还只支持 Redis, 所以它的数据存储格式就这几种： hashes, sets, sortedset......

Posted by River Young on 2016-10-27

NodeBB 2: 定制主题

skins也许你只是想简单的更换按钮或字体的颜色，那么你可以使用 NodeBB 提供的皮肤。NodeBB 的前端基于 twitter 的 Bootstrap 开发，Bootstrap 强大的社区力量提供了很多漂亮的皮肤可以选择。 widgetsNodeBB 的主题可以包含很多 widgets area, widgets 其实是由一个个的功能模块组成，比如 recent posts, hot......

Posted by River Young on 2016-10-27

NodeBB 1: 一个现代化的论坛

NodeBB：一个现代化的论坛最近对论坛感兴趣，准备学习一下，网上的开源论坛无数，为什么选择 NodeBB 呢？因为被它神速的单页面设计惊艳到了，它有完善的功能模块，可以用作 CMS，博客，论坛，甚至电子商务网站；它使用了 websocket 实时通信，可以让用户分组建群聊天；它的模块化设计，从主题到功能插件均可以自定义，支持 theme, widget, plugin 三种形式的扩展，社......

Posted by River Young on 2016-10-20

维修冷热水龙头

最近家里卫生间里的冷热水龙头坏了，水打开了关不上，便在网上搜了一下水龙头的结构图，将水龙头拆了下来，搞清楚了坏了的部件，这样便可以自己购买配件维修，也不至于花冤枉钱。后来发现网上并没有清晰的图文教程教人怎样维修，便记下文，希望搜索引擎能收录，帮助到有需要的人。我家的水龙头是长这样的，以下图片都来自网上。准备工具螺丝刀，扳手，新的替换的水龙头阀芯步骤用螺丝刀把那个红蓝色的标撬开，打......

Posted by River Young on 2016-10-02