Hello! My name is Leonel but you can call me Leo. I'm an 19 year old autistic guy with a passion for any sort of old technology and videogame consoles. I'm argentinian and speak both english and spanish, although I am usually able to express myself better in spanish. My hobbies are drawing, coding and playing videogames + I also have a tendency to collect useless stuff. Usually old technology that doesn't work anymore. I'm also a huge fan of anything considered retro, vintage or antique; I particularly like the 1980s and the 2000s :-)

In terms of personality, your guess is as good as mine... I'm usually described as reserved and quiet, maybe even dry or monotone. I'm generally really bad at social interaction (Being in the autism spectrum + having severe social anxiety is a catastrophic combination) but I try my best LOL

A thing about me is that I've felt a huge connection to computers and other technological devices all my life. Ever since I started playing Club Penguin all day on my mom's laptop when I was five, probably. Being an undiagnosed autistic kid, my blunt answers, my overall seriousness and my obsession with perfection or acurracy came off as weird to my classmates, so I often got compared to a computer or calculator. I wasn't really offended by it though... instead it's something I've kind of "reclaimed", in a way. These experiences lead me to have some sort of connection or affection for computers and technology all my life :)

How did you get into coding?
I've been coding for a little over a year now! It all started when i joined a retro website called Spacehey, a recreation of the original MySpace website. I already had some previous HTML knowledge but I didn't really get into it until I decided to code my own spacehey profile from scratch. It motivated me to start coding a personal website and, well. Here we are!

What do you use to make your website?
A bunch of this code was written in Notepad++, which is a pretty good editor, but lately I've switched to using Visual Studio Code instead. Besides that, this website is currently being tested in a 1024x768 monitor (yeah, that's a really old monitor) on a Windows 10 PC running google chrome. You might need to adjust your zoom configuration to view my site properly, sorry!

Any inspirations?
Mostly other neocities sites! I also really like to play around a lot with different layouts with a lot of different inspirations for each of them. For example, the layout youre currently reading this on is very inspired by various 80s New Wave aesthetics and design, but most of my pages are really inspired by certain currents or styles originated in the 2000s web.