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What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

Outside of the drop shadow, there wasn't anything I wasn't remotely sure how to do. I was more focused on intelligent ways to approach the layout problems.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

I'm not sure how to achieve a responsive design on this without media queries. The card's width is set to 'min-content' so it is bound to the size of the image; however, I'm not sure how to build things so that the image will resize at a certain point (and thus allow the card to shrink with it).

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

Feedback on two points: First, is using flexbox/grid to layout the content within the card overkill? It's incredibly easy to do, but it could definitely be achieved without it. Is it unnecessary to use these layout algorithms when the content's layout is static?

Second, how would I make this layout responsive on small screens ( < 475 pixels)? Is it possible to achieve this without media queries?