Rini.Neocities

About This Site

This site is a tiny collection of things I want to share with anyone who wants to see it. Building it is a form of creative therapy for me because working with HTML and CSS is like solving a logic puzzle, and there's a satisfaction when the puzzle is solved.

My early forays included Neopets, GeoCities, LiveJournal, Blogger, and Freewebs. I like that there is no one right way to write code in order to achieve the same result, yet precision is important: things will break if there is a single dot missing. I'm happy that there has been a revival of the personal web, and glad to find others who created websites as a form of expression and rebellion against the commercialised web.

My email is rini@tutamail.com just in case. Thanks for visiting!

Trivia About Me

I was born and raised in Malaysia, a tropical country near the equator with daytime temperatures above 30°C year-round. I've visited other countries but never lived anywhere else, the farthest (that I have memory of) being Canada, the most “foreign” being Russia. My mother had a hand in educating people on the nationwide adoption and use of computers and the Internet in the early 90s, writing articles and books, giving talks, and appearing on local TV.

Below is an old snippet from 2018 of me playing my viola while a thunderstorm raged outside.

I'm an ISFJ according to 16Personalities, which makes me a great support character. My favourite books up to my early 20s were children's classics and young adult fantasy fiction, such as The Secret Garden and Tuck Everlasting. More recently, I've enjoyed The Blue Castle and Sherlock Holmes.

• The Secret Garden
• Sherlock Holmes + these narrations
• The Blue Castle

Tools And Resources

• Dino pixel in footer
• Dithering tool
• Another dithering tool
• Colour tool
• Squoosh images

• Centering in CSS
• Add a white outline around a transparent PNG

• HTML for People
• W3Schools
• MDN Web Docs

Links To Other Sites

If you've ever found that your bows tend to come undone and they look like in the picture, Professor Shoelace explains why. TLDR: The starting and ending knots need to be opposite of each other to create balance, so if you start left over right, tie the finishing bow right over left.