Faith Okamoto

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• Putting scripts under version control

  Surprisingly nice

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on March 7, 2026

  My brain is absolute mush after this week’s PhD recruitment events, so it’s not a great time for writing a blog post, but at least I do have a topic. My current priority is helping to get a paper out. As that project circles towards completion, I’ve put the code... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • file-level
  • version-control

• Finding time for documentation

  I'm human too

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on February 21, 2026

  You know how I said I was going to be busy? I’m busy. Yay me. Recently I spent way too long debugging a thing that turned out to not be an interesting algorithmic flaw but rather a missing -= 2. Which meant less time for my actual projects. So now... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • documentation
  • time-management

• Your abbreviations are not obvious

  I am not a mindreader

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on February 7, 2026

  I’m nearly done with my thesis proposal first draft. Decided that I’d go back and read the code for one of the papers I’m citing. Scanning through my list, I remembered that this one came out of the lab I would’ve been in, if my PhD was at UC San... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • naming
  • comments

• Sometimes the example should be big(ger)

  Or at least not teeny

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on January 24, 2026

  I’ve mentioned that I’m cleaning up vg’s wiki pages, yeah? Well, it’s is coming along. Slowly. Mostly when I’m procrastinating. Case in point: “Evaluating alignment performance using simulation” got a rework in the last two hours of a Friday because… because, okay! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • documentation
  • tutorials
  • examples

• Spacing out

  please do

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on January 17, 2026

  I have a draft of the Introduction section of my qualifying exam! To celebrate, here’s a code critique of one of the papers I’m citing. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • whitespace
  • readability

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