The Zero-Impact Build: Why Writing Less Code is the Best Earth Day Project

A submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition Let me be perfectly clear right up front: I am not participating for any prize money or category. I am not building a massive AI tool or spinning up a blockchain node today. I am here purely as a participant to claim the completion badge and make a blunt point about how we build the web. Every tutorial pushes us to use heavier frameworks, more API calls, and bloated libraries. But data centers run on electricity, and electricity often comes f