diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 329e61b..2b8c802 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ all: .setup
 test: .setup
 	raco test -p smol-http
 
-run: all
+run:
 ifndef FB_USERNAME
 	$(error "Provide FB_USERNAME variable")
 endif
 ifndef FB_PASSWORD
 	$(error "Provide FB_PASSWORD variable")
 endif
-	./webcrawler $(USERNAME) $(PASSWORD)
+	./webcrawler $(FB_USERNAME) $(FB_PASSWORD)
 
 .setup:
 	raco pkg install smol-http/
diff --git a/smol-http/util.rkt b/smol-http/util.rkt
index ebbdc4d..0b3b915 100644
--- a/smol-http/util.rkt
+++ b/smol-http/util.rkt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 (define (->bytes x)
   (if (bytes? x)
       x
-      (string->bytes/latin-1 (format "~a" x))))
+      (string->bytes/utf-8 (format "~a" x))))
 
 (module+ test
   (let ([b #"hello"]) (check-eq? (->bytes b) b))
diff --git a/webcrawler b/webcrawler
index a05e711..44619ce 100755
--- a/webcrawler
+++ b/webcrawler
@@ -3,8 +3,12 @@
 ; vim: ft=racket
 (require smol-http)
 
+(define DEFAULT-HDRS '((user-agent . "🦈 hash-lang-uwu crawler v1.0")
+                       ;; christo pls do not track thanks
+                       (dnt . "1")))
+
 (define req
-  (make-http-req 'GET "/hello-world"))
+  (make-http-req 'GET "/hello-world" DEFAULT-HDRS))
 
 (define (run-webcrawler username password)
   (printf "the credentials are: ~s ~s\n" username password)