Where the Day Ends — Slippers on a Dark Floor

This is the moment the day is finally over. You step out of everything — the noise, the movement, the weight of hours — and your feet find the floor. Two simple slippers on cold dark tiles, caught in a single shaft of light. A top-down view of the most ordinary thing in a home, made quietly beautiful by shadow and contrast. There is something deeply human about this image. Everyone has a pair of slippers. Everyone knows this moment.

#slippers, #bnw, #blackandwhite, #floor, #topdown, #minimal, #moody, #dark, #shadow, #light, #tile, #home, #stilllife, #texture, #relatable, #everyday, #contrast, #monochrome, #overhead, #simple, #quiet, #rest, #fineart, #graphic, #interior, #perspective, #detail, #night, #calm, #life

Bom dia fediverso, desejo um bom domingo a todos, aproveitem bem o fim-de-semana.

Good morning, Fediverse. I hope you all have a lovely Sunday – make the most of the weekend.

😄

#fediverse #weekend #enjoy #break #rest #life

Lovely day for a ride.
Headed to Wembury beach for a coffee and chill

#devon #motorcycling #rest #wembury #beach #summer #motorbike

Hustle Culture Is Lying to You — Here’s What Actually Works

There was a version of me that wore exhaustion like a badge of honour. I was the person who stayed up until 2am working. Who skipped weekends because successful people don't take days off. Who answered emails at midnight and felt quietly proud of it. Who consumed every podcast, every book, every YouTube video about productivity and success and used them to convince myself that if I just worked harder, longer, and with more discipline, everything I wanted would eventually arrive. I believed […]

https://quietgrowthu.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/hustle-culture-is-lying-to-you-heres-what-actually-works/

Software Engineer II, Front End at PlayStation

PlayStation is hiring Software Engineer II, Front End

It’s been a busy few weeks, and this afternoon I’ve tried to slow down and rebuild myself.

Seriously, take time for yourselves. You deserve it.

#tired #mentalhealth #rest

Staff Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang) at GitLab

GitLab is hiring Staff Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)

I randomly followed Fayner years ago via rss because I liked her writing about REST API's and here is another one primer on #ReST and #HATEOAS. As a consumer of #APIs I struggled with many of the points she says developers leave out.

Also, I love #JSON for some unknown reason.

https://fagnerbrack.com/what-is-a-rest-api-and-why-yours-probably-isnt-one-7e5fb65ece4d

What Is a REST API, and Why Yours Probably Isn’t One

Roy Fielding derived six constraints in 2000. Most APIs meet two or three of them.

Medium

API Versioning in Spring Boot 4

API versioning is essential for the ongoing development of REST APIs without breaking changes. Spring Boot 4 introduces new features in this area. This article presents the common versioning strategies (URL-based, header-based, and others) and explains the new features in Spring Boot 4.

https://schegge.de/2026/05/api-versioning-in-spring-boot-4/

#API #Bibliotheken #Java #Spring #Rest #SpringBoot