Saneef H. Ansari

I design information and build interfaces.

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-07-22

@sarajw If you are adventurous and have a lot of projects in Netlify, I used this script to change all build images gist.github.com/saneef/836502d

All credits and thanks to the original author of that script!

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-07-22

@sarajw I think we need to update to the latest Build image. ‘Project configuration → Build & deploy → Build image’

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The Eddie Show 📷🎧❤️TheEddieShow@beige.party
2025-07-18

You aren't stuck in traffic, you ARE traffic.

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-07-18

Dear young humans,

Please learn to learn, think, and imagine for yourselves. Don’t wipe out those superpowers with LLMs or whatever people call it these days.

—A Nobody

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-07-17

@jimniels …and, to provide fastest search by title feature.

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Ivan Reesespiralganglion
2025-07-10

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

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2025-07-06

Close to 300 folks have helped @blaft and I raise funds to bring the INDIA STREET LETTERING book to life ✨ It is over 250% funded now, and I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to and boosted the campaign!

We still have two and a half weeks to go, and hope that you’ll pre-order your copy of the book ➡️ kickstarter.com/projects/blaft

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-06-27

@belldotbz A freelance Web Designer and Frontend Developer.

🔗 saneef.com

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2025-06-27

The hardest part about reusing charts can be getting your data into the expected shape. Learn common data formats consumed by Plot & D3 — and how to transform your data to match — so you can quickly reuse thousands of stunning, interactive visualizations: observablehq.com/blog/reshapin

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2025-06-26

Under nine hours, and we’re 70% funded! Let’s go internet pals 🚀 You’re making your neighbourhood type designer’s dreams come true 💙

Whether you just adore the vibrant lettering in India, or you’re a designer or researcher, there’s something for you in INDIA STREET LETTERING.

Help @blaft and I cross the finish line ➡️ kickstarter.com/projects/blaft

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Meredith WhittakerMer__edith@mastodon.world
2025-06-16

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
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16 June 2025
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-06-16

As a person working in a technology-related field, I always get creeps when I hear the word ‘ticket’ in the context of human conversation. Like, ‘Open a ticket…’ or ‘I will close the this ticket.’

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-05-29
Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-05-25

The movies and books that I love, do linger around in my thoughts even after finishing them. When my mind has time to wander, they bring up new puzzles, questions, and answers.

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-05-17

“LLMs are insidious–using them to explore ideas feels like work, but it’s not real work. Developing a prompt is like scrolling Netflix, and reading the output is like watching a TV show. Intellectual rigor comes from the journey: the dead ends, the uncertainty, and the internal debate. Skip that, and you might still get the insight–but you’ll have lost the infrastructure for meaningful understanding.”—Dustin Curtis, Thoughts on thinking , dcurt.is/thinking

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social
2025-05-15

@saneef @cmccullough
There is a 'small web' movement out there.
I'm not at home so haven't got my bookmarks with me - but smolweb.org/ might give you some pointers even if it's not the easiest site to navigate

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-05-14

@cmccullough
+100

Someone should document the good old days of the internet. I would love to show the today’s young folks how fun and open it was.

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2025-05-12

Another fantastic essay from Sam Rose. His ability to explain complex computer science topics with highly interactive essays is great.

samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/

Saneef H. Ansarisaneef@front-end.social
2025-05-12

I’m reading and nodding to a note I have written (badly) 10 years ago: ‘Explain, not justify’, saneef.com/blog/explain-not-ju

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