Faith Okamoto

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• Don't Repeat Yourself

  herein I repeat standard advice

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on March 14, 2025

  A recent pull request I made was supposed to just add a small function to a larger codebase. But, while poking around the code, I ran into egregiously non-DRY bits. Being who I am1, I refactored. Today’s rant is about DRY coding. I’m aware this has been done to death... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • last-pass
  • process
  • style

• The art of toy data

  How and why to make small test data

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on March 2, 2025

  A recent class project had me creating and documenting a small Python script (bach). As part of this process, I made toy data. This post will go over the process I used. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • testing
  • documentation

• Use data files

  February 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on February 15, 2025

  I’m not making this whole blog into critiques. My February is just busy, and I don’t want to run out of time for this month’s critique. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • documentation
  • naming

• Help others help you

  January 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on January 31, 2025

  Technically this paper isn’t published yet, but it’s on biorXiv and has gone through revision with a journal, so I’m using it. Also I’ve just spent the better part of a week trying to use its software. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • documentation
  • naming

• Reproduce your work

  (Ideally somewhere else)

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on January 25, 2025

  Here’s another post about something that’s relevant to my last week. (I will get around to another code critique before the month ends, I promise, to my nonexistent readers.) [Read More]

  Tags:

  • process
  • last-pass

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