Faith Okamoto

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• No one cares about your guts

  give the people what they want

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on July 18, 2026

  I had the particular experience of listening to someone else’s code review in a meeting this week. A fellow PhD student talked to the senior dev about a proposed change.1 One point was interesting enough to write about. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • documentation
  • functional-programming

• Give me a roadmap

  or, how *not* to onboard a newbie

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on July 11, 2026

  You know how I go on about the importance of documentation? It’s because I want to avoid being the cause of pain like I experienced just yesterday. Let’s run back the tape. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • starting-projects
  • documentation

• Filenames matter

  so what does this do?

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on June 30, 2026

  I saw that Li has another “mini” tool, so I though I’d look, as I did with minimap2. Also, it’s the literal last day of the month. Being on vacation does that to ya. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • file-level

• Removing deprecated subcommands

  for fun and profit?

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on June 12, 2026

  I was supposed to be starting a new project this week, now that the qualifying exam is behind me, but the time I had allocated to thinking got spent, um, handling old vg issues. At least this was useful? I think it was useful. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • deprecated
  • tech-debt

• On quick issues

  totally not just laziness

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on June 7, 2026

  First off, I passed my qualifying exam, yay! Then I took a trip. So this will be a shorter post than normal, just me musing about something that happened this week. That thing being some polishing of my undergrad’s project, a pipeline to perform parameter searches of vg giraffe. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development-process
  • github
  • mentorship

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