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willow c (she/her)
@carreteroc.me
🧫 MIT class of 2024 (b.s. in biology)
👩‍💻 software engineer @ Google
🏳️‍⚧️ she/her
🔗 https://carreteroc.me

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Wanted to show off a little project I've been working on: a Discord bot that replies to messages containing links with a "fixed" link, e.g. by prepending news article links with archive.is/latest/.

Check out the repo over on my GitHub: github.com/carreter/dis...
GitHub - carreter/discord-linkfixer-bot: Small bot to apply regexes to URLs
Small bot to apply regexes to URLs. Contribute to carreter/discord-linkfixer-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
reddit decided I like r/biohackers and keeps shoving stuff like this in my face, it's truly beyond parody

another guy was taking nootropics that an LLM recommended 😭
June 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
finally put in a big overhaul of my personal website!

wrote my own hugo layouts from scratch and styled them with tailwindcss... I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out given that I never do front-end work

check it out, I'll be putting up more blogs soon: carreteroc.me
June 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Ladies and gentlemen and vastly more interesting genders: I would LOVE it if everyone on Bluesky used this labeler. I fucking love getting everybody's pronouns right, I fucking love it. Pronouns are great let's do it up with pronouns everybody lets pronoun this place like a mf.
bsky.app
May 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I'M FREE FROM UNDERGRAD HELL

🥳🥳🥳
March 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Excited to share that I have officially graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Biology!

This means I'm now on the job market 😅 Do any of my followers have leads on entry-level research associate positions in molecular or computational biology and would be willing to put in a good word for me?
March 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
why did no one tell me e-ink tablets were this good

(this is the onyx boox go 10.3)
December 1, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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hello welcome to my tutorial on how the JPEG file format works
November 25, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Second post in my series writing up detailed solutions to rosalind.info #bioinformatics problems is up!

This post features an introduction to how to efficiently manipulate strings in #golang as we do some basic bioinfo computations.

🖥️🧬
carreteroc.me/posts/rosali...
ROSALIND | Problems | Locations
rosalind.info
November 18, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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How I pitch bluesky to people
October 21, 2024 at 2:27 AM
OMG wow so many new followers! @stiles.io your starter pack is really popping off...

A lil intro: I'm Willow, a biology undergrad at MIT graduating in December. Thinking of being active on here given how Twitter is nowadays.

Expect to see furry art reposts and ramblings about my personal projects!
November 10, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Today's project: CLI to zap myself using my new Pavlok 3 shock collar smartwatch. It packs quite the punch!

github.com/carreter/pav...
GitHub - carreter/pavlok-go: Pavlok CLI and API wrapper written in Go
Pavlok CLI and API wrapper written in Go. Contribute to carreter/pavlok-go development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 16, 2024 at 6:01 AM
First day back at Google! Time go get cracking and get some PRs up on the kubernetes GitHub repos :)
June 3, 2024 at 4:59 PM
finally using python again after >1 year and hoooo boy is this making me appreciate Go a lot more

(or static languages in general, duck typing suckssss)
February 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Hiking up the southern bluff of Cape Gloam
December 8, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Questions for those who work as paid software engineers for #FOSS projects:

What was/is your career path like? Do you enjoy it? How did you break into that kind of work?
January 24, 2024 at 1:53 AM
I think a big goal for me this year will be to lean into creativity in the most general sense of the word.

I want to *make* things that I'm proud of! Learning is good and all, but the knowledge often sits in my head unused unfortunately...
January 23, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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check it 🎸

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1.5hr comm for sethyy12345
January 10, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Seems like the team I worked on last summer at Google really wants me back and the project they're proposing seems pretty impactful and is open source! They were so nice and were dropping hints that i should definitely go for them and aaaaa ;-;

Guess I'll be in Seattle for the Summer!!!
January 16, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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cracked screens
January 9, 2024 at 7:46 PM
🎧 How do people catalog their music? Looking for something cross-platform or web based that lets me:
- tag albums by genre
- have crates for albums (e.g. to listen/to rate/to relisten/favorites/etc.)
- rate albums
- integrate with spotify and/or last.fm
January 8, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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video nerds queer thruples
🤝
FFmpeg

also I described the same community twice
December 27, 2023 at 12:56 AM
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December 23, 2023 at 12:41 PM