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Strange, wonderful #808day creations from Japan — and a DIY D-Beam! Japanese artists created TR-808 art and music for 808 Day 2026, including a DIY D-Beam controller CDM · 2d
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From Brand Systems to Cultural Worlds: Inside Antinomy and 27b

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There’s a major security hole in CDJs, Rekordbox; here’s what’s affected

AlphaTheta announced critical security vulnerabilities affecting many CDJ/XDJ models and all versions of Rekordbox across macOS, Windows, An

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AUGUST 2026
CSS-Tricks Animating CSS border-image Codrops Designing a Flexible Digital Archive for Chems.Studio’s Creative Practice CDM 808 Day: free Roland e-Bjook, NTS Radio jams, animation CDM The strength of grieving together, in Felisha Ledesma and Snakeskin Codrops The Department Is Open: Building the PX PUSH Website CSS-Tricks Using and Styling the Dialog Element CSS-Tricks 2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys CDM The PlayStation Vita just got a new sampling groovebox and synth CDM Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre CDM VST is 30 years old, and Steinberg is giving away some of its earliest plugins Codrops Building an Endless Interactive Glass Xylophone with Three.js CDM Push Hack, very unauthorized access to Push 3’s display, files, MIDI, and more sf.isopolis.city Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF CDM Remembering Kieran Foster; legendary Glitch2 effect now free
JULY 2026
CSS-Tricks Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! CDM Vintage Max patches revived: free downloads, Leafcutter John and Suren CSS-Tricks What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More CDM Impactor, Rupture 2 by Rawton Forge are perfect percussion synths for Live Codrops Building an Infinite GSAP Scroll Gallery with Parallax and Flip Transitions CDM DeafMan transforms Ableton Live with custom colors, interactive editor Codrops Studio Freight: Moving Missions Forward CDM The Bob Moog Foundation Archives just added 4489 items from inMusic CDM Birds on guitars, in the zebra finch sound art of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Codrops Between Print and Digital: The Making of MERSI’s Website