My Tangle with the So-Called ‘Edwin Stanberry’ Thing
Alright, let me tell you about this thing I tried recently. Heard this name floating around – Edwin Stanberry. No clue where, maybe some old forum thread or a comment someone dropped in passing. Sounded kinda official, maybe a technique for organizing stuff, maybe code, maybe project files, who knows? Curiosity got the better of me, as it usually does.
So, I thought, why not? Got this personal project, the file structure was getting a bit messy anyway. Perfect test subject for this mysterious Edwin Stanberry method. What’s the worst that could happen, right? Famous last words.
Diving In, Head First
I started moving things around. Based on the vague idea I had, this Edwin Stanberry approach wasn’t like the usual way. Instead of grouping by type (like images, code, docs), it seemed to push for something… else. Maybe grouping by task? Or by date modified? I kinda just winged it, trying to make sense of a concept I barely understood. Renamed a bunch of folders, shuffled files like crazy. Felt like I was doing something cutting-edge for about five minutes.
Then reality hit. Hard.
Finding anything became a nightmare. Seriously. Where did I put that utility script? Was it under ‘Tuesday’s Fixes’ or ‘Module Alpha Refactor’? My brain just couldn’t map it. Standard search tools in my editor struggled because the logic wasn’t standard. It was chaos. Pure, self-inflicted chaos. I spent more time looking for files than actually working on the project.
Hitting a Brick Wall
Okay, I figured, maybe I misunderstood. Let’s find the real Edwin Stanberry documentation. Went online, searched high and low. “Edwin Stanberry technique”, “Edwin Stanberry file system”, “Who is Edwin Stanberry programmer?”. You know what I found? Pretty much nothing. A few random mentions, maybe a person with that name, but no established method, no guide, no nothing.
It slowly dawned on me. This whole Edwin Stanberry method? It probably wasn’t even a real thing. Or if it was, it was so obscure or specific to some long-lost team that it was practically useless to anyone else. Maybe I’d just latched onto a name someone made up.
Felt pretty dumb, honestly. Wasted a good chunk of time chasing this fancy-sounding name that led absolutely nowhere. So, what did I do? I rolled everything back. Deleted the weird folders, put my files back into sensible, boring directories like ‘src’, ‘assets’, ‘docs’. You know, the stuff that actually works.
Guess the big lesson here was simple. Don’t get easily distracted by fancy names or promises of revolutionary methods without solid proof. Sometimes, the boring, standard way is standard for a reason – because it works. Stick to the basics until you have a very, very good reason not to. Chasing ghosts like ‘Edwin Stanberry’ just burns time you could be using to actually get stuff done.
