Faith Okamoto

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• 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

• Include sources in error messages

  So what failed, exactly?

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 9, 2025

  I’ve mentioned before that error messages should be useful. Today I’ll discuss a specific facet of usefulness that can easily be overlooked: having error messages say where they come from. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • errors

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