Every Friday, you'll get a recap of the most important and exciting Python and coding news. The Friday Loop also keeps everyone posted on new ArjanCodes courses and any limited offers coming up.
Coupling 101: Design Choices That Make or Break Your Code | Issue #47
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The Friday Loop
Every Friday, you'll get a recap of the most important and exciting Python and coding news. The Friday Loop also keeps everyone posted on new ArjanCodes courses and any limited offers coming up.
Sometimes your code fails, you change absolutely nothing, and on the next run everything works again. If that sounds familiar, this week’s video is for you. These kinds of failures usually have nothing to do with bad code. They come from the outside world: APIs that time out, networks that briefly misbehave, or LLMs that occasionally return something almost structured, but not quite. It’s frustrating, because the failure feels random, and those types of failures are really annoying to debug!...
If you’ve ever opened a function and instantly regretted it… this week’s video is for you. I’m talking about those legendary functions: ten levels of indentation, contradictory conditions, duplicate branches, mysterious try/except blocks, and business logic so unclear that nobody knows what it actually does anymore. I start with a really messy example and walk through the exact process I use to refactor it safely. You’ll see how to create characterization tests so you don’t break existing...
Have you ever written a Python script that felt slow, even though the logic was simple? Sometimes it’s not the efficiency of your code that's the problem, it’s when your code does its work. This week’s video is all about the Lazy Loading design pattern, and I think many developers underestimate how powerful (and practical) it is. I start with a real example: loading a huge CSV file that freezes your program for 10 seconds before doing anything useful. Then, step by step, we improve it using:...