For a long time, I hesitated to share my work. I kept telling myself: "If I post a simple hero section, a basic Bootstrap grid, or a landing page clone, people will judge me. They’ll think I’m not a 'real' developer yet."
But today, I saw a video of a developer who built a complete Netflix clone using only HTML & CSS in just 4 hours https://x.com/Aditwariii/status/1681403710457643009?s=20.
It made me stop and think.
It’s easy to get so obsessed with complex frameworks, cloud architectures, and database optimizations that we begin to look down on the fundamentals. But here is the psychology of software engineering that we often ignore:
Every master was once a beginner: The engineers managing complex distributed systems today started exactly where we are—struggling to center a div and fighting with CSS media queries.
