Faith Okamoto

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• 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

• Schedule update

  hello qualifying exam

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on January 3, 2026

  My qualifying exams are approaching at the end of the academic year. In addition, I have several other personal projects which I will be devoting time to. Thus, for the foreseeable future of this year, I will be updating every other week, unless I have something I want to blog... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • meta

• Quality of life updates

  one of those easy things to neglect

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on December 27, 2025

  I’ve been on holiday, so this will be a quick one. We have a release scheduled for Monday that I suspect I’m going to end up doing. That led to me looking at the changelog for this update. There is a… pattern. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • errors
  • usability

• Understanding an API

  December 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on December 13, 2025

  It’s the holidays and I just needed to find some article to write about. So I’m going with the marker paper for minimap2. It’s a hugely important tool in my field but I don’t think I’ve ever looked at its code. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • documentation
  • comments

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