Faith Okamoto

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• Format your code

  April 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on April 26, 2025

  I’m running out of time for this month’s published-code-critique. Luckily, Nature’s front page had this gem: a paper literally referring back to the days of Mendel1! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • style

• Directory READMEs

  From the list of "things I wish other people did"

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on April 19, 2025

  I’ve mentioned that I make a README as the first file in any new project directory. Here, I’ll detail what goes in this README. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • file-level
  • documentation
  • readme

• Magic numbers in plotting

  Abracadabra, make a graph!

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on April 5, 2025

  I’ve just started a class on making scientific plots so I’ll cover a common phenomenon: magic numbers. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • style
  • plots

• A pretty good README

  March 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on March 20, 2025

  Figured I could do with some praise, and luckily enough, the first manuscript in Bioinformatics’s “Advance articles” section fit the bill. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • documentation
  • readme

• 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
  • dry

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