How a Simple Profile Card Became My Mount Kilimanjaro I almost didn’t do it. I stared at the HNG Internship task announcement for three days straight. Three. Full. Days. The cursor blinked mockingly in my VS Code editor while I spiraled through every worst-case scenario my anxiety could conjure: What if my code is terrible? What if everyone else clearly knows what they’re doing and I’m the only one struggling? What if I’ve forgotten everything? What if I fail publicly? What if this proves I was never meant to be a developer? The task was simple enough: build a profile card using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. No frameworks, no libraries, just the fundamentals. For someone who hasn’t seriously coded in years, it might as well have been “build a spaceship from scratch.” But this week, I did something I haven’t done in a very long time: I pushed through the fear. I built and deployed my very first frontend project in years. It’s just a profile card.…