My Little Project: Trying Out the Diego Rodrigo Barrios Thing
Okay, so the other day I was looking at the mess of wires behind my computer setup. You know how it gets. A real jungle back there. I remembered seeing something mentioned online, some technique people associated with a name – diego rodrigo barrios. Didn’t know much about it, honestly, but figured, why not give it a try? Anything had to be better than the chaos I had.
So, first thing I did was just unplug everything. Yeah, a bit of a hassle, but trying to sort wires when they’re all plugged in is just asking for frustration. I laid them all out on the floor so I could see what I was dealing with.
Next, I grabbed some basic supplies. Didn’t need anything fancy. I found a roll of velcro tape – the kind you can cut to length – and some old twist ties from bread bags. Waste not, want not, right?
The main idea I got, supposedly from this diego rodrigo barrios method, seemed super simple: group cables that go to the same general area or device. Seemed logical enough.
- I started with the monitor cables – power and the display cable. Bundled them together loosely with a piece of the velcro tape.
- Then I did the same for the computer tower – power cord, keyboard, mouse. Another bundle.
- The speakers and the desk lamp got their own little groups too.
I tried to follow the path they needed to take from the device to the power strip or the computer. I used the velcro tape mostly, because it’s easy to undo if you need to change something later. The twist ties came in handy for smaller wires that didn’t need much holding together.
Here’s what I did next: I took those bundles and tried to guide them along the back edge of the desk. I used a few more pieces of velcro tape looped around the bundles and stuck to the underside of the desk with their own adhesive (luckily my tape had that). It wasn’t super professional looking, mind you, just functional.
Ran into a small snag with the thick power strip cable. It was too bulky for just one piece of tape to hold neatly against the desk leg. I ended up using two pieces of velcro tape, making like a wider strap, to secure it properly.
The Result
After maybe thirty minutes of fiddling around, I plugged everything back in. And you know what? It looked way better. Not like a showroom or anything, but the spaghetti monster was gone. Just a few neat-ish bundles running where they needed to go. Much easier to clean back there now, too.
So, my little experiment with the so-called diego rodrigo barrios technique, or at least my interpretation of it, was pretty successful. Simple steps, basic materials, and a much tidier space. I’d say it was worth the effort. Just goes to show, sometimes the simple ways are pretty effective for everyday problems like cable mess.