Faith Okamoto

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• Why even have a manpage?

  at least keep this up to date!

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 1, 2026

  Among my many1 side projects is one to update our manpage. I’ll write about that. Not the update itself per se but why I care. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • manpage
  • documentation

• Magic scripts still need documentation

  and organization

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on July 25, 2026

  As always I forgot to grab a paper to critique until the end of the month. At least my lab’s journal club is soon so I can just grab the paper we’ll be discussing then. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • readme

• 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

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