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Berusei’s Internet-Archaeology Portfolio

berusei.dev ↗ · Developer Corner · score 84.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A Japanese web engineer’s portfolio of archival tools, restored forums, music-sales data, and other personal software projects.

Why it surfaced

The standout project, KakologInfo, makes roughly 130 million Japanese 5ちゃんねる thread titles searchable after a month-long scraping and database-building effort. Elsewhere, the portfolio reconstructs a defunct Bandori forum from Wayback Machine captures and revives an anime-song sales archive—specific, technically grounded work with a clear personal history.

The Largest Cat Has No Number

August 14’s newborn domains include an unnumbered giant among thirteen catalogued glossy cats, a shareable Visual Snow Syndrome simulator, two independent Colombian relief directories, and a snail farm with races, courtship, and its own Gazette.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-14 Domain Arrivals issue.