Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:52:04 +0000

Let’s be honest. There’s a huge gap between writing code that works and writing code that’s actually good. It’s the number one thing that separates a junior developer from a senior, and it’s something a surprising number of us never really learn.

If you’re serious about your craft, you’ve probably felt this. You build something, it functions, but deep down you know it’s brittle. You’re afraid to touch it a year from now.

Today, we’re going to bridge that gap. I’m going to walk you through eight design principles that are the bedrock of professional, production-level code. This isn’t about fancy algorithms; it’s about a mindset. A way of thinking that prepares your code for the future.

And hey, if you want a cheat sheet with all these principles plus the code examples I’m referencing, you can get it for free. Just sign up for my newsletter from the link in the description, and I’ll send it right over.

Ready? Let’s dive in.

1. Cohesion & Single Responsibility

This sounds academic, but it’s simple: every piece of code should have one job, and one reason to change.

High cohesion means you group related things together. A function does one thing. A class has one core responsibility. A module contains related classes.

Think about a UserManager class. A junior dev might cram everything in there: validating user input, saving the user to the database, sending a welcome email, and logging the activity. At first glance, it looks fine. But what happens when you want to change your database? Or swap your email service? You have to rip apart this massive, god-like class. It’s a nightmare.

The senior approach? Break it up. You’d have:

An EmailValidator class.
A UserRespository class (just for database stuff).
An EmailService class.
A UserActivityLogger class.

Then, your main UserService class delegates the work to these other, specialized classes. Yes, it’s more files. It looks like overkill for a small project. I get it. But this is systems-level thinking. You’re anticipating future changes and making them easy. You can now swap out the database logic or the email provider without touching the core user service. That’s powerful.

2. Encapsulation & Abstraction

This is all about hiding the messy details. You want to expose the behavior of your code, not the raw data.

Imagine a simple BankAccount class. The naive way is to just have public attributes like balance and transactions. What could go wrong? Well, another developer (or you, on a Monday morning) could accidentally set the balance to a negative number. Or set the transactions list to a string. Chaos.

The solution is to protect your internal state. In Python, we use a leading underscore (e.g., _balance) as a signal: “Hey, this is internal. Please don’t touch it directly.”

Instead of letting people mess with the data, you provide methods: deposit(), withdraw(), get_balance(). Inside these methods, you can add protective logic. The deposit() method can check for negative amounts. The withdraw() method can check for sufficient funds.

The user of your class doesn’t need to know how it all works inside. They just need to know they can call deposit(), and it will just work. You’ve hidden the complexity and provided a simple, safe interface.

3. Loose Coupling & Modularity

Coupling is how tightly connected your code components are. You want them to be as loosely coupled as possible. A change in one part shouldn’t send a ripple effect of breakages across the entire system.

Let’s go back to that email example. A tightly coupled OrderProcessor might create an instance of EmailSender directly inside itself. Now, that OrderProcessor is forever tied to that specific EmailSender class. What if you want to send an SMS instead? You have to change the OrderProcessor code.

The loosely coupled way is to rely on an “interface,” or what Python calls an Abstract Base Class (ABC). You define a generic Notifier class that says, “Anything that wants to be a notifier must have a send() method.”

Then, your OrderProcessor just asks for a Notifier object. It doesn’t care if it’s an EmailNotifier or an SmsNotifier or a CarrierPigeonNotifier. As long as the object you give it has a send() method, it will work. You’ve decoupled the OrderProcessor from the specific implementation of the notification. You can swap them in and out interchangeably.

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4. Reusability & Extensibility

This one’s a question you should always ask yourself: Can I add new functionality without editing existing code?

Think of a ReportGenerator function that has a giant if/elif/else block to handle different formats: if format == 'text', elif format == 'csv', elif format == 'html'. To add a JSON format, you have to go in and add another elif. This is not extensible.

The better way is, again, to use an abstract class. Create a ReportFormatter interface with a format() method. Then create separate classes: TextFormatter, CsvFormatter, HtmlFormatter, each with their own format() logic.

Your ReportGenerator now just takes any ReportFormatter object and calls its format() method. Want to add JSON support? You just create a new JsonFormatter class. You don’t have to touch the ReportGenerator at all. It’s extensible without being modified.

5. Portability

This is the one everyone forgets. Will your code work on a different machine? On Linux instead of Windows? Without some weird version of C++ installed?

The most common mistake I see is hardcoding file paths. If you write C:\Users\Ahmed\data\input.txt, that code is now guaranteed to fail on every other computer in the world.

The solution is to use libraries like Python’s os and pathlib to build paths dynamically. And for things like API keys, database URLs, and other environment-specific settings, use environment variables. Don’t hardcode them! Create a .env file and load them at runtime. This makes your code portable and secure.

6. Defensibility

Write your code as if an idiot is going to use it. Because someday, that idiot will be you.

This means validating all inputs. Sanitizing data. Setting safe default values. Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen if someone provides bad input?” and then guard against it.

In a payment processor, don’t have debug_mode=True as the default. Don’t set the maximum retries to 100. Don’t forget a timeout. These are unsafe defaults.

And for the love of all that is holy, validate your inputs! Don’t just assume the amount is a number or that the account_number is valid. Check it. Raise clear errors if it’s wrong. Protect your system from bad data.

7. Maintainability & Testability

The most expensive part of software isn’t writing it; it’s maintaining it. And you can’t maintain what you can’t test.

Code that is easy to test is, by default, more maintainable.

Look at a complex calculate function that parses an expression, performs the math, handles errors, and writes to a log file all at once. How do you even begin to test that? There are a million edge cases.

The answer is to break it down. Have a separate OperationParser. Have simple add, subtract, multiply functions. Each of these small, pure components is incredibly easy to test. Your main calculate function then becomes a simple coordinator of these tested components.

8. Simplicity (KISS, DRY, YAGNI)

Finally, after all that, the highest goal is simplicity.

KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid): Simple code is harder to write than complex code, but it’s a million times easier to understand and maintain. Swallow your ego and write the simplest thing that works.
DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself): If you’re doing something more than once, wrap it in a reusable function or component.
YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It): This is the counter-balance to all the principles above. Don’t over-engineer. Don’t add a flexible, extensible system if you’re just building a quick prototype to validate an idea. When I was coding my startup, I ignored a lot of these patterns at first because speed was more important. Always ask what the business need is before you start engineering a masterpiece.

Phew, that was a lot. But these patterns are what it takes to level up. It’s a shift from just getting things done to building things that last.

If you enjoyed this, let me know. I’d love to make more advanced videos like this one. See you in the next one.

A Pythonista’s Guide to the 2026 Code Rush

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Look, we know the truth. Python is the best language ever written. It reads like English, it runs the AI revolution, and it doesn’t force us to worry about memory pointers or semi-colons.

But even I have to admit: the industry in 2026 is getting crowded. The “job market is brutal” chatter isn’t wrong. While we sit comfortably at the top of the TIOBE index, the ground is moving. New tech is pushing for raw speed and type safety, and “just knowing Python” might not be the golden ticket it was five years ago.

So, how do we—the whitespace-loving, bracket-hating crowd—stay on top? We don’t abandon ship. We fortify.

Here is how the rest of the programming ecosystem looks through snake-tinted glasses, and what you should actually bother learning to keep your edge.

1. Python: Still the King, But Watch the Throne

Let’s get the validation out of the way first. Python is still the engine of the modern world. Stack Overflow’s 2025 survey has us at nearly 58% usage. We aren’t going anywhere.

AI & ML: If you are touching AI, you are writing Python. Period. The heavy lifting happens in C++, but we hold the remote control (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
Data: Pandas and NumPy are standard equipment.
Backend: FastAPI and Django are still shipping products faster than anyone else.

The Elephant in the Room (The GIL): We have to talk about the Global Interpreter Lock. It’s that annoying guardrail that stops Python from using multiple CPU cores at once for a single process. It’s why the “speed freaks” make fun of us.

Does it matter? Mostly, no. For 90% of apps, developer speed beats execution speed. But in 2026, efficiency is starting to count again. If you are building high-scale systems, Python is strictly the glue code. You need a partner language for the heavy computing.

2. The “Friends” We Can Tolerate

If you have to step outside the Python ecosystem, you want languages that don’t make you miserable.

Rust: The Best Friend You’re Jealous Of

If you learn one other language this year, make it Rust.

Why? Because Rust is what Python wants to be when it grows up and hits the gym. It gives you memory safety (no segfaults!) and C++ speed, but the tooling is actually modern.

For us, Rust is the perfect backend companion. Tools like Ruff (the super-fast Python linter) and Polars (the pandas alternative) are written in Rust. Writing Python extensions in Rust using PyO3 is a superpower. You write the slow parts in Rust, wrap them up, and call them from Python. You look like a genius optimization engineer, but you still get to write .py files most of the day.

TypeScript: The Only Sane Way to Do Frontend

I know, I know. We hate JavaScript. It’s messy and weird.

But unless you are using HTMX or Streamlit for everything (which, respect), you eventually have to touch the browser. TypeScript is the answer. It brings sanity to the chaos. It has types (like Python’s Type Hints, but actually enforced), so the code doesn’t explode at runtime.

Think of TypeScript as the “Pythonic” way to write JavaScript. It catches your mistakes before you push to prod. If you are doing full-stack, this is non-negotiable.

3. The “Necessary Evils”

Go: The Boring Plumber

Go (Golang) is… fine. It’s Google’s language for cloud infrastructure. It’s very simple, very fast, and very boring.

I see Go as the “anti-Python” in philosophy. Python is about expression and “one obvious way to do it.” Go is about “copy-paste this error check three times.” But, if you work in DevOps, Docker, or Kubernetes, you have to read Go. It’s a great paycheck language, even if it lacks soul.

Java: The Corporate Suit

Java is still everywhere in big banks and legacy enterprise systems. It’s verbose and heavy. Unless you are specifically targeting a job at a Fortune 500 bank or building Android apps (and even then, use Kotlin), you can probably skip this. Let the enterprise devs handle the boilerplates.

4. The “Don’t Bother” List (For Us)

C++: Respect to the grandfathers, but life is too short for manual memory management. Unless you are building a game engine or writing the next PyTorch core, leave C++ to the specialists. We have Rust now.
Raw JavaScript: Just use TypeScript. Friends don’t let friends write vanilla JS in 2026.

The Strategy: The T-Shaped Pythonista

So, what’s the play? Do you drop Python?

Absolutely not. You double down on Python, but you stop being a “one-trick pony.”

The Core: Be a master of Python. Know the internals. Use Type Hints. Understand asyncio deeply.
The Edge: Pick Rust as your performance weapon. When Python is too slow, don’t complain—rewrite that specific function in Rust.
The Reach: Learn TypeScript just enough to not break the frontend.

That is how you survive the shift. You don’t chase every trend. You keep your home base in Python, and you selectively raid the other villages for their best tools.

The Efficient Way to Learn Python in 2026 (5 Prompts + A Free Book)

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I see two types of learners in 2026, and honestly, both of them are doing it wrong.

The first group tries to learn solely through AI. They ask chatbots to “write a script,” copy-paste the result, and feel productive. But the second they hit a bug the AI can’t fix, they freeze. They have no foundation. They built a house on sand.

The second group goes the old-school route. They buy a massive, 800-page programming textbook. They read it cover to cover, highlighting every line. By Chapter 4, they are bored. By Chapter 7, they quit. It’s too slow for the pace of 2026.

Here is the secret I’ve found after years in this industry: The real growth happens when you combine the two.

A book gives you the structure—the “what to learn” and the “why.” The AI gives you the speed—the “how.”

If you want to master Python this year, you shouldn’t just read a book; you should interact with it. I recommend using the 10xdev python book as your primary roadmap. It’s structured for the modern developer, not the academic.

But don’t just read it passively. Use the following 5 AI prompts to turn that static text into a living, breathing course.

The “Book + Prompt” Methodology

The concept is simple. You read a section of the 10xdev python book to understand the core concept. Then, you immediately use an AI agent (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to test, expand, and apply that knowledge.

This keeps you moving fast without losing depth. Here are the specific prompts to make that happen.

1. The “Pre-Flight” Primer

Most people get stuck because they dive into a complex chapter without knowing why it matters. Use this prompt before you start a new chapter to prime your brain.

The Prompt:

“I am about to read the chapter on [Insert Topic, e.g., Asynchronous Programming] in the 10xdev python book (link: https://10xdev.blog/pybook).

Your Goal: Give me a 3-bullet point summary of why this specific concept is used in modern 2026 software development. Context: Don’t explain how to do it yet. Just tell me what problems it solves so I know what to look for while I read the book.”

Why this works: It builds a mental hook. When you eventually read the technical details in the book, your brain already knows where to file the information. You aren’t just memorizing; you are solving a problem.

2. The “Feynman” Stress Test

The ultimate test of understanding is whether you can teach it. After you finish a section, don’t just move on. Force yourself to explain it back to the AI.

The Prompt:

“I just finished the section on [Insert Topic, e.g., Decorators] in the 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook).

My Task: I am going to write a short paragraph below explaining this concept as if I were teaching a junior developer. Your Job: Critique my explanation. Did I miss any edge cases? Did I use the terminology correctly?

My Explanation: [Type your summary here…]”

Why this works: This is the fastest way to find holes in your knowledge. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it. The AI acts as your safety net, catching misunderstandings before they become bad habits.

3. The “Translator” Prompt (Theory to Practice)

Sometimes, a book example might not click. Maybe the 10xdev python book uses a “Bank Account” analogy, but you care about “Video Games.” Use AI to translate the book’s logic into your language.

The Prompt:

“The 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook) explains the concept of [Insert Concept, e.g., Object-Oriented Inheritance] using an example about [e.g., Bank Accounts]. I am struggling to visualize it.

Task: Explain this exact same concept, but use an analogy involving [Choose one: RPG Video Game Characters / Managing a Pizza Shop / A Spotify Playlist]. Output: Write a Python code snippet that mirrors the structure used in the book, but applied to this new analogy.”

Why this works: It makes the abstract concrete. By seeing the same logic applied to a domain you love, the concept sticks.

4. The “Modern Context” Checker

Technology moves fast. While the 10xdev python book is excellent, new tools appear every month. Use this prompt to ensure you are connecting the book’s foundational wisdom with the absolute latest 2026 tools.

The Prompt:

“I am reading the section in the 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook) about [Insert Topic, e.g., Web Scraping].

Question: The book covers the foundational logic well. But for a startup building in late 2026, are there new AI-specific libraries (like Crawl4AI or updated LangChain tools) that I should use alongside these principles? Output: Show me how to apply the book’s logic using the most modern tool available today.”

Why this works: It bridges the gap between “Foundational Principles” (which rarely change) and “Tooling” (which changes constantly). You get the best of both worlds.

5. The “Implementation Sprint” Prompt

Passive reading is the enemy. You need to build. Use this prompt to turn a chapter of the book into a mini-project.

The Prompt:

“I want to practice the skills from Chapter [X] of the 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook), which covers [Insert Topic, e.g., API Integration].

Task: Design a tiny coding challenge for me that uses these exact concepts. Constraints:

It must be solvable in under 60 minutes.

It must result in a working script, not just a function.

Do not write the code for me. Just give me the requirements and the steps.”

Why this works: It forces you to close the book and open your IDE. You stop being a student and start being a developer.

Why This Approach Wins

The developers who get hired in 2026 aren’t the ones who memorized the documentation. They are the ones who understand systems.

The 10xdev python book provides the system architecture—the mental model of how professional Python code is structured. The AI provides the infinite practice and instant feedback.

If you rely on just one, you are slow or shallow. If you use both, you are unstoppable.

Your Next Step:

Go get the 10xdev python book.
Open Chapter 1.
Keep ChatGPT open in the next tab.
Run Prompt #1.

That’s how you go from “learning to code” to “being a developer in the age of AI.”

Is AI Taking Your Dev Job? Here’s The Fix (Plus a 100% Free Python Course)

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:46:51 +0000

Things feel different in tech right now, don’t they?

A few years back, landing a dev or data role felt like winning the lottery. You learned some syntax, built a portfolio, and you were set. But in 2025, that safety net feels thin. We all know why.

Artificial Intelligence isn’t just a buzzword anymore. It’s sitting right there in your IDE.

You might be asking: Is my job safe?

Here is the honest answer. If your day-to-day work involves taking a clear set of instructions and turning them into code, your role is shaky. We have tools now that generate boilerplate, write solid SQL, and slap together UI components faster than any human.

But here is the good news.

The job isn’t disappearing. It’s just moving up a level. The industry is hungry for people who can think, design, and fix messy problems. To survive this shift, you need to stop acting like a translator for computers and start acting like an architect of systems.

You need future proof coding skills.

The Shift: From “Code Monkey” to Problem Solver

I remember my first real wake-up call as a junior dev. I spent three days writing a script to parse some logs. I was so proud of my regex. Then, a senior engineer looked at it, shook his head, and said, “Why didn’t you just fix the logging format at the source?”

I was focused on the code. He was focused on the system.

That is the difference. AI can write the regex. AI cannot see that the logging format is the actual problem.

Here is how you make yourself indispensable in 2025.

1. Think in Systems, Not Just Syntax

Most of us learned to code by memorizing rules. “Here is a loop,” or “Here is a class.”

But real software engineering is about managing chaos.

Take Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). It’s not just about making a class for a “Car” or a “Dog.” It’s a way to map out a complex business problem so it doesn’t collapse under its own weight later. AI can spit out a class file in seconds. But it lacks the vision to plan how twenty different objects should talk to each other over the next two years.

Or look at Functional Programming. It sounds academic, but for data roles, it’s vital. It teaches you to write code that doesn’t change things unexpectedly. When you are processing terabytes of data, “side effects” (random changes to data) are a nightmare. Learning to write pure, predictable functions keeps your data pipelines from exploding.

2. Don’t Wait for a Ticket

The average developer waits for work to be assigned. The indispensable developer goes hunting for it.

Every company is full of waste. The marketing team manually fixing a spreadsheet every Monday. The operations guy copy-pasting files between folders.

This is your chance.

You need an automation-first mindset. Learn to write scripts that touch the file system, scrape messy data, and handle errors gracefully. If a network connection drops, a bad script crashes. A good tool waits, retries, logs the issue, and keeps going.

AI can write the script if you tell it exactly what to do. But you are the one who has to notice the inefficiency, talk to the marketing manager, and design the tool that actually helps them.

3. Treat Data Like Gold

In 2025, data literacy isn’t optional.

You need to know your Data Structures. I’m not talking about passing a whiteboard interview. I mean knowing the trade-offs.

List vs. Set: If you need to check if an item exists inside a collection a million times, a List will choke your CPU. A Set will do it instantly.
Immutability: knowing when to use a Tuple so other developers (and you, six months from now) know this data must not change.

These small choices add up. They determine if your application runs smoothly or crawls to a halt. AI often defaults to the simplest option, not the best one.

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The Bottom Line

Don’t let the headlines scare you. The demand for engineers who can solve fuzzy, real-world problems is higher than ever.

The code is just a tool. The value is you.

Level up your thinking. Master the tools that let you control the machine, rather than compete with it.

Stay curious,

Boucodes and Naima / 10xdev blog Team

Tired of Pip and Venv? Meet UV, Your New All-in-One Python Tool

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hey there, how’s it going?

Let’s talk about the Python world for a second. If you’ve been around for a while, you know the drill. You start a new project, and the ritual begins: create a directory, set up a virtual environment with venv, remember to activate it, pip install your packages, and then pip freeze everything into a requirements.txt file.

It works. It’s fine. But it always felt a bit… clunky. A lot of steps. A lot to explain to newcomers.

Well, I’ve been playing with a new tool that’s been gaining a ton of steam, and honestly? I don’t think I’m going back. It’s called UV, and it comes from Astral, the same team behind the super-popular linter, ruff.

The goal here is ambitious. UV wants to be the single tool that replaces pip, venv, pip-tools, and even pipx. It’s an installer, an environment manager, and a tool runner all rolled into one. And because it’s written in Rust, it’s ridiculously fast.

So, let’s walk through what a typical project setup looks like the old way… and then see how much simpler it gets with UV.

The Old Way: The Pip & Venv Dance

Okay, so let’s say we’re starting a new Flask app. The old-school workflow would look something like this:

mkdir old-way-project && cd old-way-project
python3 -m venv .venv (Create the virtual environment)
source .venv/bin/activate (Activate it… don’t forget!)
pip install flask requests (Install our packages)
pip freeze > requirements.txt (Save our dependencies for later)

It’s a process we’ve all done a hundred times. But it’s also a process with a few different tools and concepts you have to juggle. For someone just starting out, it’s a lot to take in.

The New Way: Just `uv`

Now, let’s do the same thing with UV.

Instead of creating a directory myself, I can just run:

uv init new-app

This one command creates a new directory, cds into it, and sets up a modern Python project structure. It initializes a Git repository, creates a sensible .gitignore, and gives us a pyproject.toml file. This is the modern way to manage project metadata and dependencies.

But wait… where’s the virtual environment? Where’s the activation step?

Here’s the magic. You don’t have to worry about it.

Let’s add Flask and Requests to our new project. Instead of pip, we use uv add:

uv add flask requests

When I run this, a few amazing things happen:

UV sees I don’t have a virtual environment yet, so it creates one for me automatically.
It installs Flask and Requests into that environment at lightning speed.
It updates my pyproject.toml file to list flask and requests as dependencies.
It creates a uv.lock file, which records the exact versions of every single package and sub-dependency. This is what solves the classic “but it works on my machine!” problem.

All of that, with one command, and I never had to type source ... activate.

Running Your Code (This Is the Coolest Part)

“Okay,” you might be thinking, “but how do I run my code if the environment isn’t active?”

Simple. You just tell UV to run it for you.

uv run main.py

UV finds the project’s virtual environment and runs your script inside it, even though your main shell doesn’t have it activated.

Now, get ready for the part that really blew my mind.

Let’s say I accidentally delete my virtual environment.

rm -rf .venv

Normally, this would be a disaster. I’d have to recreate the environment, activate it, and reinstall everything from my requirements.txt file. It would be a whole thing.

But with UV? I just run the same command again:

uv run main.py

UV sees the environment is gone. It reads the uv.lock file, instantly recreates the exact same environment with the exact same packages, and then runs the code. It all happens in a couple of seconds. It’s just… seamless.

If you’re sharing the project with a teammate, they just clone it and run uv sync. That’s it. Their environment is ready to go, perfectly matching yours.

It Even Replaces Pipx for Tools

Another thing I love is how it handles command-line tools. I used to use pipx to install global tools like linters and formatters. UV has that built-in, too.

Want to install ruff?

uv tool install ruff

This installs it in an isolated environment but makes it available everywhere.

But even better is the uvx command, which lets you run a tool without permanently installing it.

Let’s say I want to quickly check my code with ruff but I don’t want to install it.

uvx ruff check .

UV will download ruff to a temporary environment, run the command, and then clean up after itself. It’s perfect for trying out new tools or running one-off commands without cluttering your system.

My Takeaway

I know, I know… another new tool to learn. It can feel overwhelming. But this one is different. It doesn’t just add another layer; it simplifies and replaces a whole stack of existing tools with something faster, smarter, and more intuitive.

The smart caching alone is a huge win. If you have ten projects that all use Flask, UV only stores it once on your disk, saving a ton of space and making new project setups almost instantaneous.

I’ve fully switched my workflow over to UV, and I can’t see myself going back. It just gets out of the way and lets me focus on the code.

The Anatomy of a Scalable Python Project

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ever start a Python project that feels clean and simple, only to have it turn into a tangled mess a few months later? Yeah, I’ve been there more times than I can count.

Today, I want to pull back the curtain and show you the anatomy of a Python project that’s built to last. This is the setup I use for all my production projects. It’s a blueprint that helps keep things sane, organized, and ready to grow without giving you a massive headache.

We’ll walk through everything—folder structure, config, logging, testing, and tooling. The whole package.

So, What Does “Scalable” Even Mean?

It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot, right? “Scalable.” But what does it actually mean in practice?

For me, it boils down to a few things:

Scales with Size: Your codebase is going to grow. That’s a good thing! It means you’re adding features. A scalable structure means you don’t have to constantly refactor everything just to add something new. The foundation is already there.
Scales with Your Team: If you bring on another developer, they shouldn’t need a two-week onboarding just to figure out where to put a new function. The boundaries should be clear, and the layout should be predictable.
Scales with Environments: Moving from your local machine to staging and then to production should be… well, boring. In a good way. Your config should be centralized, making environment switching a non-event.
Scales with Speed: Your local setup should be a breeze. Tests should run fast. Docker should just work. You want to eliminate friction so you can actually focus on building things.

Over the years, I’ve worked with everything from TypeScript to Java to C++, and while the specifics change, the principles of good structure are universal. This is the flavor that I’ve found works beautifully for Python.

The Blueprint: A Balanced Folder Structure

You want just enough structure to keep things organized, but not so much that you’re digging through ten nested folders to find a single file. It’s a balance.

Here’s the high-level view:

/
├── app/      # Your application's source code
├── tests/    # Your tests
├── .env      # Environment variables (for local dev)
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── pyproject.toml
└── ... other config files

Right away, you see the most important separation: your app code and your tests live in their own top-level directories. This is crucial. Don’t mix them.

Diving Into the `app` Folder

This is where the magic happens. Inside app, I follow a simple pattern. For this example, we’re looking at a FastAPI app, but the concepts apply anywhere.

app/
├── api/
│   └── v1/
│       └── users.py   # The HTTP layer (routers)
├── core/
│   ├── config.py    # Centralized configuration
│   └── logging.py   # Logging setup
├── db/
│   └── schema.py    # Database models (e.g., SQLAlchemy)
├── models/
│   └── user.py      # Data contracts (e.g., Pydantic schemas)
├── services/
│   └── user.py      # The business logic!
└── main.py          # App entry point

Let’s break it down.

main.py - The Entry Point

This file is kept as lean as possible. Seriously, there’s almost nothing in it. It just initializes the FastAPI app and registers the routers from the api folder. That’s it.

api/ - The Thin HTTP Layer

This is where your routes live. If you look inside api/v1/users.py, you won’t find any business logic. You’ll just see the standard GET, POST, PUT, DELETE endpoints. Their only job is to handle the HTTP request and response. They act as a thin translator, calling into the real logic somewhere else.

core/ - The Cross-Cutting Concerns

This folder is for things that are used all over your application.

config.py: I use Pydantic’s Settings for this. It’s amazing. You define your config as a class, and it can automatically pull in values from environment variables (like from that .env file). This makes managing settings for different environments a piece of cake.
logging.py: A simple, standardized logging setup. You configure it once here, and then you can just import and use it anywhere.

db/ and models/ - The Data Layers

db/schema.py: This is where you define your database tables, probably using something like SQLAlchemy. It describes the shape of your data in the database.
models/user.py: These are your Pydantic models that define the contracts for your API. What JSON should a user send to create a user? What JSON will they get back? This is where you define that, and you get free data validation out of it.

services/ - The Heart of Your Application

This is the most important folder, in my opinion. This is where your actual business logic lives. The UserService takes a database session and does the real work: querying for users, creating a new user, running validation logic, etc.

Why is this so great?

Your API layer stays clean and simple.
You can test your business logic directly, without needing to spin up a web server.
Want to switch from PostgreSQL to a different database? Or even an external API? You only have to change it here. The rest of your app doesn’t care.

Let’s Talk About Testing

Your tests folder should mirror your app folder’s structure. This makes it incredibly easy to find the tests for any given piece of code.

tests/
└── api/
    └── v1/
        └── test_users.py

For testing, I use an in-memory SQLite database. This keeps my tests completely isolated from my production database and makes them run super fast.

FastAPI has a fantastic dependency injection system that makes testing a dream. In my tests, I can just “override” the dependency that provides the database session and swap it with my in-memory test database. Now, when I run a test that hits my API, it’s running against a temporary, clean database every single time.

Tooling That Ties It All Together

pyproject.toml: This is where your project dependencies and settings (like for pytest) live. I use uv these days—it’s incredibly fast.
Dockerfile & docker-compose.yml: This is how you guarantee that your local development environment is exactly like your production environment. When I run docker-compose up, it spins up my app in a container, using the same Dockerfile that will eventually be deployed to the cloud. No more “but it works on my machine!”
.env file: This holds your local environment variables, like database passwords. Crucially, you never commit this file to Git. It’s for your machine only.

How It All Flows Together

So, let’s trace a request:

A GET /users request hits the router in api/v1/users.py.
FastAPI’s dependency injection system automatically creates a UserService instance, giving it a fresh database session.
The route calls the list_users method on the service.
The service runs a query against the database, gets the results, and returns them.
The router takes those results, formats them as a JSON response, and sends it back to the client.

The beauty of this is the clean separation of concerns. The API layer handles HTTP. The service layer handles business logic. The database layer handles persistence.

This structure lets you start small and add complexity later without making a mess. The boundaries are clear, which makes development faster, testing easier, and onboarding new team members a whole lot smoother.

Of course, this is a starting point. You might need a scripts/ folder for data migrations or other custom tasks. But this foundation… it’s solid. It’s been a game-changer for me, and I hope it can be for you too.

Python's New T-Strings Are a Game Changer. Here's Why.

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

How’s it going, everyone?

Let’s talk about something we all do constantly as Python developers: putting variables into strings.

For years, we’ve had our trusty tools. F-strings, .format(), and the old-school string.Template. And they’re fine… mostly. But each one has its own little quirks, right? Its own set of trade-offs.

You know what I’m talking about.

F-strings are amazing. They’re clean, they’re readable, and they just feel so natural. But they’re also a bit of a “fire and forget” missile. The second you create that string, all the context is gone. It’s just a flat piece of text. There’s no memory of the variables that went into it, which means you can’t easily reuse it or, more importantly, sanitize the inputs. And that can be a little scary when you’re dealing with user input for things like SQL queries or HTML.

Then you have .format(), which is a bit more verbose, and string.Template, which is safer but feels… clunky. A lot of ceremony for a simple string.

But what if I told you there’s a new way coming in Python 3.14? A way that gives you the beautiful simplicity of an f-string but with the intelligence and safety we’ve been missing.

Say hello to T-strings.

At first glance, they look almost identical to f-strings. You just swap the f for a t.

t"Hello {name}, you are {age} years old."

Simple. But here’s the magic: that line of code doesn’t just give you a string. It gives you a Template object.

Think of it like this. An f-string is like a baked cake. It’s done. You can’t change it. A T-string is the recipe and all the ingredients, perfectly measured and sitting on your counter. You can inspect the flour, check if the eggs are fresh, or swap out the sugar for honey before you bake the cake.

This is a total game-changer.

Because the T-string object remembers its structure—the static text parts and the expressions you want to insert—you can do some incredibly powerful things.

You can inspect all the literal parts of the string. You can see all the placeholders and their original expressions. And you can see the evaluated values. The structure isn’t lost.

So, why is this so useful?

For one, safety. This is the big one. Because you have access to the interpolated parts before the final string is built, you can sanitize them. Imagine you’re building a URL or a piece of HTML with user-provided data. With a T-string, you can easily run that data through an escaping function to prevent injection attacks. It’s like having a bouncer for your variables, ensuring nothing dangerous gets inside.

You can finally write code like this without holding your breath:

build_template(my_template, processor=html.escape)

Another huge win is flexibility. You can defer rendering. You decide when and how to build the final string. You can pass these template objects around, apply different formatting, or even translate the literal parts without touching the placeholders.

Now, a quick heads-up, because this can be a little confusing. Python already had a Template object in the string module. The new T-string object is string.template_library.Template. They serve different purposes, and honestly, the naming is a bit unfortunate. The old one is great for simple email templates; the new one is a powerhouse for validation, sanitization, and transformation. Just be mindful of your imports!

So yeah, that’s the scoop. T-strings are more than just a new letter in front of a string. They represent a fundamental shift in how we can handle templating in Python—making our code safer, more flexible, and a whole lot smarter.

Give them a spin when you get your hands on Python 3.14. I’d love to hear how you’re using them.

Python 3.14 Just Dropped: Here's What You Need to Know

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

So, Python 3.14 is officially here.

And whenever a new version drops, there’s always that mix of excitement and… let’s be honest, a little bit of “what do I really need to pay attention to?”

I’ve been digging into it, and I wanted to walk you through the changes that actually feel like they’ll make a difference in our day-to-day coding lives. Some of these are things you can use right away, and others are more like a sneak peek into where Python is heading. It’s pretty exciting stuff.

First things first, if you want to follow along, you’ll need to get it running. You can grab it from the official python.org site, of course. Personally, I’m using uv to manage my versions. It just makes it so easy to hop between them.

I’ve got my project set up to allow both 3.13 and 3.14, so I can quickly run a command like uv python pin 3.13 to show you how things used to work, and then jump right back with uv python pin 3.14. It’s the best way to see the difference firsthand.

Alright, let’s get into the good stuff.

Template Strings: The “Smarter” F-String

At first glance, you’ll think this is just an f-string with a t instead of an f.

And you’re not wrong… syntactically, they look identical. But what they do is completely different.

An f-string is like a finished cake. It evaluates everything immediately and just gives you back a single, complete string. A template string, or t-string, is more like the recipe and all the separate ingredients. It gives you back a special template object that contains the raw text parts and the values you’re trying to insert (they call them “interpolations”).

Why is that useful? Because you can mess with the ingredients before you bake the cake.

Imagine you have a template like t"Hello, {name}, how are you?". Instead of just getting a string back, you can now programmatically loop through the parts of that template. You can say, “Hey, for every piece that’s an interpolation, I want you to capitalize it.”

# This is a template object, not just a string!
my_template = t"Hello, {name}, how are you?"
name = "mike"

# We can build logic around the template's parts
parts = []
for element in my_template.elements:
    if element.is_interpolation:
        # Let's title-case all names
        parts.append(element.value.title())
    else:
        parts.append(element.raw)

result = "".join(parts)
print(result) # Output: Hello, Mike, how are you?

This is a game-changer for sanitizing input or building complex string-based logic without a ton of messy parsing. It’s a really clever addition.

No More Ugly String-Based Type Hints

You know the drill. You’re writing a class method that needs to reference the class itself in a type hint, but the class isn’t fully defined yet. So you have to do this:

# The old way...
class Node:
    def set_next(self, node: "Node") -> "Node":
        # ...

You had to wrap the type in quotes to create a “forward reference.” It worked, but it always felt a bit clunky.

Well, you can forget about that now.

Thanks to deferred evaluation of annotations (PEP 649), Python 3.14 is now smart enough to not evaluate type hints until they’re actually needed. This means you can just write the code the way you’ve always wanted to:

# The new, clean way in Python 3.14
def process_node(n: Node) -> Node:
    # ... this just works now!

class Node:
    # ...

If you tried this in 3.13, you’d get a NameError because Node wasn’t defined yet. Now, it just works. It’s a small thing, but it makes code so much cleaner and more intuitive.

A New Era of Concurrency: Sub-Interpreters

Okay, this one is huge. For years, Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (the GIL) has been a bottleneck for true multi-core parallelism. Threading was great for I/O-bound tasks, but for CPU-heavy work, it didn’t help much because only one thread could run Python code at a time.

Python 3.14 introduces a new, user-friendly way to work with sub-interpreters. Think of it as running multiple, isolated instances of Python within the same process. It’s like getting the process isolation of multiprocessing with the efficiency of threading.

The new InterpreterPoolExecutor works just like the ThreadPoolExecutor you’re already familiar with. But the performance difference for CPU-bound tasks is staggering.

I ran a test calculating factorials for a range of numbers.

Single Thread: 12 seconds
ThreadPoolExecutor (4 threads): 14.4 seconds (yep, even slower due to GIL overhead)
InterpreterPoolExecutor (4 interpreters): 3.4 seconds

That’s a more than 4x speedup. This is true multi-core parallelism, right in standard Python. It’s still new and not all third-party packages support it yet, but it’s a massive step forward for the language.

…And Then There’s Free-Threaded Python (No-GIL)

Just as we’re getting excited about sub-interpreters, there’s another major development. Python 3.14 now officially supports an optional “free-threaded” build that runs without the GIL.

This is what many have been dreaming of for years.

When I ran the same factorial test with the free-threaded build, the results were even more impressive:

ThreadPoolExecutor (4 threads, no-GIL): 2.4 seconds
InterpreterPoolExecutor (4 interpreters): 3.2 seconds

With the GIL gone, traditional multi-threading now achieves true parallelism and is even faster. Again, this is still experimental. The ecosystem needs to adapt, and many packages will need to be updated to be thread-safe. But the fact that this is now an officially supported option is a sign of incredible things to come.

A Handy Debugging Tool for AsyncIO

If you’ve ever worked with asyncio, you know it can sometimes feel like a black box. When things get stuck, it’s hard to peek inside and see what’s going on.

Python 3.14 adds a simple but powerful CLI tool for just that. You can now run python -m asyncio to inspect a running Python process.

I tried it with a simple script that had two async tasks sleeping for different durations. I ran the script, got its process ID (PID), and then in another terminal, I ran:

python -m asyncio ps <PID>

And just like that, it showed me the running tasks and their current state (e.g., sleep). It’s an incredibly useful tool for debugging complex asynchronous applications.

A Few More Nice Things

A Unified compression Module: All the standard compression libraries (gzip, bz2, lzma, etc.) are now also available under a single compression module. It even adds a new one: zstandard. A nice little cleanup.
Simpler except Clauses: You no longer need parentheses to catch multiple exceptions. except ValueError, ZeroDivisionError: is now valid syntax. It’s a small but welcome simplification.

There’s a lot more under the hood, of course—better error messages, incremental garbage collection, and other performance boosts. But these are the highlights that I think are the most exciting.

Python is getting faster, more powerful, and easier to work with. It’s an amazing time to be a Python developer.

Python 3.14 is Here: Let's Talk About the Cool New Stuff

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

So, the wait is over. Python 3.14 has officially landed.

And if you’ve been following along, you might know this release is a bit… different. It’s not packed with flashy, headline-grabbing features like 3.13 was. It’s more of a “quality of life” release.

But don’t let that fool you. There’s a ton to talk about. A lot of long-awaited changes finally made it in, and a bunch of small performance tweaks add up to something pretty significant.

So let’s get into it, shall we?

The Big Stuff Happening in the Background

How about we start with the changes you might not see, but you’ll definitely feel?

First up, freethreaded Python is now officially supported. This has been in the works for a while, but it’s now ready for prime time. Yes, there’s still a small performance hit (around 15-20%) if you’re running single-threaded code. But for anything that can actually use multiple threads… it’s a game-changer. It’s way, way faster.

And the craziest part? asyncio is fully supported in freethreaded mode. You can have multiple event loops running across different threads. Just… be careful not to tear a hole in the space-time continuum with that kind of power.

Another thing I can finally stop talking about is the deferred evaluation of annotations. This is a huge deal. If you’ve ever had two classes that need to reference each other in their type hints, you know the pain. You had to turn one of them into a string to avoid circular import errors.

Well, not anymore.

Python now lazily evaluates those annotations only when they’re actually needed. Your static type checker can still see them, but your running code doesn’t get tangled up. It’s the best of both worlds, and it means you can finally ditch from __future__ import annotations. You’ve got plenty of time, though—it won’t be fully gone for another six years.

The internals got a nice little tune-up, too. There’s a new experimental interpreter that uses something called “tail calls.” Long story short, it makes Python about 3-5% faster on average, and in some cases, up to 30% faster. You have to build Python with a special flag to use it for now, but it’s a cool glimpse into the future.

And the garbage collector got smarter. Instead of pausing your whole program to take out the trash, it now does it in smaller increments. If you’ve ever seen your app just… freeze for a second for no reason? You should see a lot less of that now.

The One Big Syntax Change: T-Strings

Okay, let’s talk about the main event for syntax nerds: Template Strings, or “T-strings.”

On the surface, they look just like f-strings. But they’re fundamentally different.

An f-string just becomes a regular string. A T-string, however, becomes a special “template object.” This lets you intercept the values inside the curly brackets {} and process them.

Why is this useful? Think about sanitizing user input for a database query, or building complex HTML templates safely. With f-strings, it’s awkward. With T-strings, it’s what they were designed for. F-strings are still your go-to for simple stuff, but T-strings give us a clean, powerful tool for the complex jobs.

Making Life Easier for Developers

This release is packed with little things that just make coding in Python more pleasant.

The interactive shell (REPL) is getting so good. It now has syntax highlighting built-in. You can even theme the colors! And… it finally has autocomplete. Just hit tab. It’s crazy to think how basic the shell was just a few years ago.

And the error messages… wow. They are so much better. Python is getting incredibly good at telling you exactly what you did wrong. It can now:

Detect typos in keywords (like def or if).
Tell you when you put an elif after an else.
Point out when you forgot to close a string properly.
Let you know you used async with on a regular object (we’ve all done it).

It’s like having a helpful friend looking over your shoulder.

For the debuggers out there, you can now remotely attach PDB to any running Python process. You don’t have to edit the code or anything. Just point it at the process and start debugging. There’s also a new command-line tool that shows you all your running asyncio tasks in a nice table or tree view, which is amazing for hunting down slow or stuck tasks.

The Lightning Round: More Speed, More Features

As always, there are a bunch of other cool things tucked away in this release. Here are some of my favorites:

New Features:

datetime.time objects now have strptime and strftime methods. Finally!
JSON errors are more detailed, telling you where the problem is.
You can reload environment variables on the fly with os.reload_environ.
pathlib gets new methods to recursively copy and move files.

Optimizations:

A bunch of standard library modules import faster.
asyncio is 10-20% faster in benchmarks.
Reading files is up to 15% faster.
Generating UUIDs is 30% faster.
And my personal favorite niche stat: decoding base16 data is now six times faster. Nice one.

Phew. That’s a lot. And it’s not even everything.

I’d really encourage you to check out the official release notes to see the full list. And let me know in the comments what your favorite change is!

On a personal note, you might have noticed I haven’t been uploading much lately. Life has been… a lot. Big changes. But I couldn’t miss this one. I hope to be back more regularly in the new year.

Until then, I hope you enjoy Python 3.14. I’ll see you in the next one.

Python 3.14 is Here, and It's More Than Just a Number

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Python 3.14. It’s finally here.

I feel like I’ve been waiting for this my whole career. It just feels… right. But now that it’s here, I’m also a little bit sad. What do we wait for now? Python 3.162, the square root of 10? It doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Or maybe Python 6.28… you know, 2π. That’s probably not happening in my lifetime. Unless AI makes us all immortal, and I’m still here in 500 years making Python videos. Who knows? Maybe AI will be doing all the coding for us by then, or maybe we’ll all have moved on to Rust once it becomes as easy as Python.

I have no idea. But let’s stick with the here and now, shall we?

Python 3.14 has some genuinely nice new features. What actually matters to you will depend on what kind of developer you are. We all use Python in our own weird and wonderful ways, right?

So, I’m not going to give you a laundry list of every single change. Instead, I’m going to show you four features that I personally love in 3.14, complete with some code examples.

Oh, and before I forget, the new shell has syntax highlighting! If I open up the old Python 3.13 shell and type, it’s just plain text. But in the new 3.14 shell… look at that! Colors! It’s a small thing, but I really, really like it.

Okay, let’s dive into the four things that I think are worth highlighting.

1. A Tiny Tweak to Exception Syntax

First up, a quality-of-life improvement for handling exceptions.

You know how when you want to catch multiple exception types, you have to wrap them in parentheses? Like this:

try:
    # some risky code
except (ValueError, KeyError) as e:
    print("Caught one of these two errors.")

Well, in Python 3.14, you no longer need those parentheses. You can just… not type them.

try:
    # some risky code
except ValueError, KeyError as e:
    print("Caught one of these two errors.")

My code editor’s AI hasn’t caught on yet and tries to “fix” it for me. Nope, GitHub Copilot, we’re living in the future now.

It’s a tiny change, I know. But think about it. How many times have you typed those parentheses? As developers, every keystroke on our mechanical keyboards costs energy. This change probably saves us about 17 calories a year. That’s enough for one bite of a donut.

I’ll take it. In fact, I already did. So I guess I have to switch to 3.14 now.

2. Built-in Zstandard Compression

The second thing I’m excited about is that zstandard compression is now built into Python.

This is a really fast compression algorithm. I put together a quick benchmark comparing it to gzip and bzip2, just compressing some random data.

And wow. zstandard is not only super fast at compression, but it also creates a much smaller file than gzip. Decompression is a little slower than gzip, but the size difference is significant. And when you compare it to bzip2… the difference is even bigger.

In the past, you might have chosen bzip2 over gzip for its smaller file sizes, but you’d take a big hit on performance. Now, zstandard gives you the best of both worlds. This is perfect for things like caching, log files, or anywhere you need both speed and small size.

3. Template Strings: f-strings on Steroids

This one is a bit more advanced, but it’s incredibly powerful. Template strings are like a generalization of f-strings.

The thing with f-strings is that they are interpolated immediately. You write it, Python processes it, and that’s that. You have no control over how it gets processed.

Templates are different. They don’t return a string directly; they return a Template object. This object lets you inspect the parts to be interpolated and apply your own custom logic.

Why is this useful? Think about safe HTML rendering or sanitizing inputs.

In this example, I’m using a template string (notice the t prefix) to inject some “evil” script code.

# evil_script = "<script>alert('pwned')</script>"
# message = t"Hello, {evil_script}!"

With a custom function, I can process this template and tell it to sanitize the inputs, escaping the HTML. So instead of the script actually running, you get a harmless, escaped version of it. This is huge for preventing injection attacks.

You probably won’t be using template strings in your day-to-day code, but you’ll definitely start seeing them in libraries for things like web frameworks, logging, and anywhere that security and custom formatting are important.

4. The Future is Now for Annotations

Finally, my favorite change: deferred annotations are now the default.

If you’ve ever had a class that needs to reference its own type in a type hint, you know the pain. For example, a Node class that has a next attribute, which is also a Node.

class Node:
    next: Node | None

In older Python versions, this would throw a NameError because Node hasn’t been fully defined yet. The solution was to either write it as a string ('Node') or add this to the top of your file:

from __future__ import annotations

Well, you can forget about that now. In Python 3.14, it just works. No extra import needed. The future is not what it used to be… it’s here.

This means less boilerplate, cleaner files, and just a smoother experience.

Even better, there’s a new annotationlib module that lets you inspect annotations without actually evaluating them. This is a massive deal for libraries like Pydantic and FastAPI that rely heavily on type introspection.

So there you have it. For me, the cleaner exception syntax, powerful compression, safer templates, and no-fuss annotations make Python 3.14 a really solid and practical upgrade.

But I’d love to hear what you think. Are you excited about template strings? The performance gains from sub-interpreters? Or are you just happy the version number finally lines up with Pi? Let me know.

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