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Kelly Sovacool
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Bioinformatics Software Engineer. PhD from Schloss Lab at UMich.

https://sovacool.dev

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kelly.sova.cool
it's been one of those days...
A screenshot of a git commit that says "ci(docker): throw spaghetti at the wall". Sometimes, the only thing you can do to make a docker recipe build successfully is throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
kelly.sova.cool
Haha thanks for the support ✨

There are services where you can build a webpage with a layout that mirrors your Instagram posts, so you can have different specific links for each post. Eg NYT uses this to link to posts about their stories. I wanna do something similar but more DIY!
The New York Times instagram page. They have a link in their bio to nytimes.com/instagram A screenshot of nytimes.com/instagram. All of the images in this grid correspond to NYT Instagram posts, and clicking one will take you to the NYT article that the post is about.
March 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
kelly.sova.cool
Everything else is spiraling right now so we have to revel in the small joys.

The microbes are waking up from their winter slumber!
A thermometer inserted into a compost bin. The compost temperature is 88 F, a new high for this year as winter draws to close in Michigan.
March 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
kelly.sova.cool
quick example
# pip install qrcode pillow import qrcode from qrcode.image.styledpil import StyledPilImage from qrcode.image.styles.colormasks import SolidFillColorMask qr = qrcode.QRCode(error_correction=qrcode.constants.ERROR_CORRECT_H) qr.add_data('https://neighborhoodscientist.org/') img = qr.make_image(image_factor=StyledPilImage, color_mask=SolidFillColorMask(), fill_color="#197278") img.save("qrcode.png")
March 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
kelly.sova.cool
one of many many reasons to use testthat: positive & encouraging messages!
(testthat.r-lib.org)
#rstats #testthat
A screenshot of the RStudio console showing results from testthat, an R package for unit testing. After running tests, testthat printed a motivational message: "Your tests are magnificent!"
January 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
kelly.sova.cool
FWIW this is in their FAQ:
screenshot of the frequently asked questions section from https://freeourfeeds.com/
January 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
kelly.sova.cool
Spouse found the spreadsheet in our shared Google Drive account 🤓
A chain of text messages: “Are you really taking measurements” “On the compost temp pile?” “LMAO”
December 4, 2024 at 11:48 PM
kelly.sova.cool
A meme of two school girls; one is playing a tuba and the other is against a wall with the bell of the tuba against her face. The tuba is labelled "unwanted ai", the girl being blasted in the face by the tuba is labelled "me", and the girl playing the tuba is labelled "every company" with the spotify logo as her head
December 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
kelly.sova.cool
Recently started a compost bin and I’m wayyyy too excited that the compost is warmer than the ambient air temperature for the first time. It’s 48 F outside and the pile is now ~73 F 🥳
Go microbes go!
A thermometer inserted into a compost bin. The compost temperature is 73 F while the ambient air temp is 48 F.
November 25, 2024 at 4:36 PM
kelly.sova.cool
There are only 10 hard problems in computer science...
A screenshot of an introductory Python coding tutorial from https://www.schlosslab.org/just-enough-python/. A chunk of Python code demonstrates creating a dictionary with 3 key-value pairs and how to iterate over the keys and values in the dictionary. The printed output shows: "There are only 10 hard problems in computer science: 1 naming things, 2 understanding binary, 3 off-by-one errors". The code is below: problems = {1: "naming things", 2: "understanding binary", 3: "off-by-one errors"} print('There are only 10 hard problems in computer science:') for num in problems: print(f"\t {num} {problems[num]}")
November 20, 2024 at 1:53 AM
kelly.sova.cool
holiday brain: my git commit messages aren't making a whole lotta sense... but at least they pass the conventional commits hook 🤷🏻‍♀️
A screenshot of a commit message on GitHub. The message reads "fix(cli): only prevent citation is flag set". The message format adheres to "conventional commits" guidelines, but doesn't make any sense.
December 19, 2023 at 10:07 PM
kelly.sova.cool
when you have the esteemed privilege of deleting files that were accidentally committed by the maintainer 🫡
#git #software
A screenshot from the "Contributors" page of a GitHub repository, showing the tweet author's contributions to a repo. She made 5 commits wherein she added 17 lines and deleted 242,228 lines of code.
November 8, 2023 at 10:16 PM