Faith Okamoto

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• 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

• Releasing code without data

  for legal reasons

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on May 30, 2026

  For those readers who care about the ongoing “Faith loves Project Hail Mary” storyline, I’ve now watched it five times :D [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • runnable
  • examples

• Not every speedup is snazzy

  An optimization is an optimization

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on May 16, 2026

  I’ve been doing optimizations because my code that used to be winning on speed is now losing on speed. Or, actually, it was half-winning last I checked, but that was after several rounds of optimizations. Thought I’d write on it. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • optimization
  • algorithms

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