Just realized my new boning knife is too flexible for beef ribs

I got a 6-inch flexible blade thinking it would be good for everything, but yesterday on a full beef rib plate it kept bending too much when I was trying to get under the membrane. Ended up taking me almost twice as long and I nicked the meat a couple times. Do you guys use a stiffer knife for that kind of job, or is it just my technique?

I've been wrapping my brisket way too early for years

I always thought you wrapped a brisket once it hit a nice dark bark, maybe around 160 degrees. I was at a cookout in Kansas City last month and a guy I met, who runs a small food truck, asked me about my method. When I told him, he just shook his head and said, 'You're trapping steam and making it pot-roasty, man.' He told me to wait until the bark is set and doesn't wipe off when you touch it, which for me was more like 175 degrees on my last cook. The difference was crazy. The bark was actually crunchy, not soft, and the meat was way better. How do you all decide when it's time to wrap?

Just saw my net worth hit a positive number for the first time ever (it's $1,237)

Tried a new Figma plugin for auto-layout and it totally broke my spacing

I was working on a dashboard design and used 'Autoflow' to quickly stack some cards, but it set all the gaps to 0px and squished everything together. Honestly, I had to undo and manually fix like 20 frames. Has anyone else had a plugin do more harm than good, and what's a safer one for layout stuff?

I used to think a design system was just a style guide and a component library.

About three years ago, I was leading a project for a client in Austin, and we built what I thought was a solid system. Last month, I saw a talk by Sarah from the team at InVision, and she showed how their system included voice and tone rules, content patterns, and even error message guidelines. That changed my mind completely. Has anyone else added content strategy to their design system, and how did you get buy-in from developers?

I keep seeing people hack at a rib roast with a boning knife and it drives me nuts

I was at a shop in Spokane last week and watched a guy try to separate the ribs from the loin with a 6-inch flexible boning knife. He was sawing for like 10 minutes, wrecking the shape. That job needs a stiff cimeter or breaking knife, period. The right tool saves the cut and about 30 seconds of your time. Am I the only one who gets worked up over this?

Just realized why I can't get into slow-burn shows

I was trying to watch a drama everyone likes, but kept looking at my phone. It hit me that I need faster pacing to stay interested, maybe cause my brain is fried from kid chaos lmao. Do slow-burn shows ever work for you, or do you like something that starts quick?