Faith Okamoto

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• Config files vs. hardcoding

  An alternative for bespoke file names

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on October 4, 2025

  I’m heading to a conference (the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium’s 2025 meeting) and, through accident or luck, I have my fingers in three things: I’m speaking for part of one talk, giving a few plots to another, and presenting my own poster. This meant that I needed to get a... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • hardcoding
  • parameters
  • plots

• Things I care about too much

  a listicle

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on September 27, 2025

  Classes have started again1 and I’m remembering why I wasn’t doing these posts weekly2. So, instead of thinking of anything substantial to write about, I figured I could just do a listicle. The Internet likes listicles, right? [Read More]

  Tags:

  • style

• 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

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