iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 24/06/2026

@pftompkins.bsky.social is spectacular and does the best RFK Jr impression

Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 21/03/2026

It also offered a wonderful bonding experience for me and my 5-year-old daughter. Letting her take control and play around with colors and brush styles was inspiring and reminded me that I need to let go sometimes and see what happens. This is one of those times she took the mouse and went to town.

A digital painting of a room from the video game, Chicory, painted in pink and green with various textures

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 21/03/2026

I recently finished up playing #chicory and it was well worth it; the right mix of cozy, adventure, and positive storytelling. It was a cathartic experience being able to paint my best friend who I said goodbye to two years ago. Thank you.

A digital painting of an orange fluffy dog (who was the best boy)

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 20/01/2026

Vanilla JS for scroll-depth trigger and animated using CSS keyframes with a custom bezier curve, transform properties, and a quick blur filter

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 20/01/2026

Hand-drawn button, jigglified in Affinity using Liquify, and then put together into a WebP animation that triggers on hover. Inspired by the boiling line animation style of Ed, Edd n Eddy and Yoshi's Story on N64

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 20/01/2026

Sometimes you want to bring your website to life without a ton of JS overhead. Hand-drawn sketch, chopped up in Affinity, animated in @rive.app Brings me back to my Flash days

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 12/04/2025

Got to see @markhoppus.bsky.social talk about music, cancer, and hand stuff. Every punk rock kid's dream.

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 20/03/2025

The cobbler's kids finally have new shoes! I pushed my new portfolio to feel like an extension of myself, focusing on personal expression and craft. There's still more work to do, but it's a start! Built with HTML/CSS, vanilla JS, Tailwind, and 11ty. justinkalaskey.com #designsky #webdev #oldbay

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 21/01/2025

A guide on what to do when you see a Nazi:

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 15/01/2025

Turns out Cursor struggles with craft too when given an image and explanation; it needs help from another Figma to code tool. CodeParrot is so far better than Builder.io and generates code for me in Cursor as an extension. Tomorrow I'll really test its abilities when I try to make this:

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 15/01/2025

There's a rift forming in the product design world: rapid prototyping vs craft. Sure, rapid prototyping gets something out the door fast, but it's generic as hell. Craft takes time and intentionality. I didn't meet all my goals today (thanks, life), but that's okay. I'm choosing craft. #designsky

Justin Kalaskey's portfolio homepage with a DIY, hand-drawn feel, including a sketch font, highlights, and a portrait of Justin as a sticker.

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 14/01/2025

Cursor was struggling with my "this doesn't follow any kind of standard, wtf are you thinking" layout. So I'm testing out CodeParrot to assist in development. Left image is what went in, right is what came out. Not too bad for getting me 80% of the way there! Better than Builder.io, IMO.

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 14/01/2025

Statamic likes to have fun with their site, although I'm a big fan of what they were doing before their most recent redesign. Thankfully the Wayback Machine captured it!

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 14/01/2025

My new site only looks partially broken, which means it's on track, right? Today's goal is to finish the homepage and start a case study. Cursor can be both helpful and frustrating as it rewrites code, but it's still much faster than doing this myself in VSCode. #designsky #buildinpublic #webdev

In-progress homepage for Justin Kalaskey's portfolio website

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Justin Kalaskey @justinkalaskey.com · 13/01/2025

You know the saying, 'The cobbler's children have no shoes'? My portfolio's been shoeless for too long! Building a new UX/product design portfolio this week using a small web approach: Eleventy, custom Tailwind + SCSS, vanilla JS. Cursor for dev. Follow along! #design #webdev #buildinpublic

Split-screen screen shot. Left side is code written using Cursor. Right side is a design in Figma.

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