Faith Okamoto

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• Documentation and mega-tools

  September 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on September 22, 2025

  As is probably obvious from my blogging history, I work on the vg toolkit. And if there’s one thing vg is known for (besides our papers with cool results and all that), it’s that, while the toolkit is quite powerful, it is a pain to get into. Sheer complexity has... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • documentation
  • readme
  • getting-started
  • published-code-critique

• Optimization vs. readability

  What is a "microptimization"?

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on September 14, 2025

  This is somewhat of a mea culpa after my previous post on refactoring. But then, not entirely. I did end up having to revert the pretty refactor, though. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • refactoring
  • optimization

• Extracting the core

  More ways to DRY that code

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on September 6, 2025

  One of my projects finally inched close enough to “good” that I sent it to for code review. (I should blog about code review at some point…) I got the PR back with comments, then spent some time refactoring. I want to talk about a non-obvious refactor that I’m kicking... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • refactoring
  • dry

• One year later

  Looking back

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 27, 2025

  A year ago, I published my first blog post here. I wasn’t sure how long I would keep going, but clearly I haven’t stopped yet! I’m about to start on my second year as a PhD student. Soon I’ll be helping to run a bootcamp for incoming PhD students. The... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • meta

• Tell me how to install this

  August 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 16, 2025

  I admit this [published-code-critique] is slightly petty. The paper promised a new method quite relevant to my research interests. Yet the details are nowhere in the preprint. I ended up having to dig through section 7 of their supplementary note. At that point, I figured I might as well check... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • readme
  • installation

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