Stop Pinging My Endpoints – Funny API Developer Unisex Organic Cotton T-shirt

Description

Your API is tired and your endpoints are exhausted.

This “Stop Pinging My Endpoints” shirt perfectly captures the eternal struggle of every backend developer, DevOps engineer, and API maintainer who’s watched their monitoring dashboard light up like a Christmas tree at 3 AM because someone decided to ping their endpoints every 0.5 seconds.
The design features an adorably grumpy cupcake character—because nothing says “I’m done with your excessive health checks” quite like angry baked goods. It’s the perfect blend of kawaii aesthetic and legitimate technical frustration. The cupcake is cute, but the sentiment is REAL.

Made from soft, sustainable organic cotton for maximum comfort during on-call rotations, post-incident retrospectives, or those moments when you’re explaining to a frontend developer why they can’t just make 47 API calls on page load.

Why This Shirt Speaks to Your Soul:
You’ve been there. It’s 2 AM. Your phone buzzes. PagerDuty alert: “Endpoint health check failing.” You blearily check the logs. Someone’s monitoring service is hitting your /health endpoint 50 times per minute. Your endpoint isn’t down—it’s just tired. It needs boundaries. It needs REST (pun absolutely intended).

This shirt is for the developers who:
Have rate-limited monitoring services
Know the difference between GET and POST (and wish everyone else did too)
Have written “429 Too Many Requests” responses with increasing levels of sass
Have muttered “read the documentation” at their screen more than once
Understand that just because you CAN ping an endpoint doesn’t mean you SHOULD
Have a complicated relationship with webhooks
Dream in HTTP status codes

Perfect For:
Backend developers tired of explaining rate limits
API engineers with strong opinions about RESTful design
DevOps professionals managing monitoring systems
Full-stack developers who maintain both sides
Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) who’ve seen some things
Anyone who’s ever written API documentation that nobody reads
Microservices architects drowning in inter-service communication
Tech leads explaining why “just add another endpoint” isn’t the solution

Pairs Well With:
A comprehensive monitoring strategy with reasonable intervals
Documentation that explains your rate limits
Coffee (so much coffee)
That passive-aggressive Slack message about API best practices
Your incident response runbook
A “Do Not Disturb” sign for your endpoints

Warning Label:
Side effects may include: suddenly caring deeply about rate limiting, explaining HTTP status codes at parties, adding increasingly sarcastic error messages to your API responses, setting up honeypot endpoints just to see who’s abusing them, and developing strong feelings about webhook retry logic.

This shirt will not actually stop people from pinging your endpoints. That requires proper authentication, rate limiting, and possibly a WAF. But it WILL let everyone know you’ve reached your limit (pun intended again).

The Backstory:
Somewhere, right now, a monitoring service is pinging an endpoint every second. The endpoint is fine. It’s just tired. It’s been responding with 200 OK for the past 47 million requests. It dreams of a world where health checks happen at reasonable intervals. It fantasizes about returning a 418 I’m a Teapot status just to see if anyone’s actually reading the responses.
This shirt is for that endpoint. This shirt IS that endpoint. Adorable, functional, but desperately in need of some space.

Real Talk:
We know you’re going to keep maintaining those endpoints. We know you’ll optimize them, cache them, scale them horizontally. We know you’ll wake up at 3 AM when they go down. But sometimes, you just need a shirt that says what everyone’s thinking: “Maybe give the endpoints a break?”
Plus, angry cupcakes are objectively hilarious. Fight us.

• 100% organic ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 5.3 oz./yd.² (180 g/m²)
• Single jersey
• Medium fit
• Set-in sleeves
• 1 × 1 rib at collar
• Wide double-needle topstitch on the sleeves and bottom hems
• Self-fabric neck tape (inside, back of the neck)
• The fabric of this product holds certifications for its organic cotton content under GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) and OCS (Organic Content Standard)
• The fabric of this product is OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified and PETA-Approved Vegan

The sizes correspond to a smaller size in the US market, so US customers should order a size up.

Produced and shipped using a global production and shipping company. They’re probably just around the corner from you!

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

Age restrictions: For adults
EU Warranty: 2 years
Other compliance information: Meets the EU REACH requirements.

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