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Faith Okamoto

Code unto others as you would have them code unto you

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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]
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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]
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- 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]
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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]
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- last-pass
- process
- style
- dry
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]
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