Alright, let’s talk about this ‘jared hatch’ thing I tried messing with a while back. Heard the name bounced around, maybe on some forum or a Slack channel, can’t recall exactly. Sounded like some new, supposedly better way to organize stuff, maybe project files or components, you know the drill.
So, I figured, why not? Got a small personal project, nothing critical, perfect testing ground. I started trying to apply what I thought was the ‘jared hatch’ approach. First hurdle: finding clear info. It was all bits and pieces, hearsay mostly. No solid guide, just mentions. Felt like chasing a ghost.
Trying to Make it Work
I decided to just wing it based on the fragments I’d gathered. Spent a good afternoon just moving files around, renaming folders. My structure looked completely different. Honestly, it felt kinda… arbitrary. Like change for the sake of change.
It got complicated fast.
- Finding specific components became a treasure hunt.
- Imports got longer, way longer.
- Explaining it to myself felt like justifying a bad decision.
I remember hitting a point where a simple change required touching files in like, five different new directories. My old way? One, maybe two files. This felt backward. Progress slowed way down. I was spending more time navigating the structure than actually coding features.
Reminded me of this one time at a previous gig. Management got obsessed with some new methodology fad. We spent weeks in meetings, restructuring teams, changing workflows. End result? Everything took twice as long, people got frustrated, and we quietly ditched most of it six months later. Same energy here. Chasing the new shiny thing isn’t always the answer.
Final Thoughts on That Experiment
After wrestling with it for maybe two days, I scrapped it. Went back to my simple, maybe ‘boring’, structure. Suddenly, I could breathe again. Everything made sense, easy to find, easy to modify.
Maybe the ‘jared hatch’ way works for some specific, massive-scale projects, I don’t know. Or maybe I completely misunderstood it, which is entirely possible given the lack of clear info. But for my needs? Total overkill. It just added layers of complexity without any real benefit I could see. Sometimes, the simple, proven way is simple and proven for a reason. Learned that lesson again, the hard way. Just stick with what works until you have a real problem that a new approach actually solves.