she just straight up stole me off the stage 😭 #39c3

I'm at #39c3 this week, if you want @iplabs.ink stickers feel free to find me. For people wondering I am working in the 2025 splatoon comp scene stats atm. Taking me a bit longer this year.

It’s an honor to have been hosting this project for four whole years now! I never thought it would grow in numbers so much since we first started in 2022. Did you know that the first ever Riptide Trading Card Project had only 11 artists?! Look how many incredible artists are a part of it now!! 🧵

We keep teasing it, but now it's time to reveal the amazing Riptide 2025 poster by @mdoebling.bsky.social! Amazing work, we can't wait for you all to see it in person!

The complicated part of doing a poster for a LAN is not finding the artist (which is still hard to whittle down) but working out how many you need to print in relation to players and attendees going. This is a rabbit hole of working out stats from previous LANs.

We're rebuilding @iplabs.ink player database and well... some players really like shouting their name. This is an example of why you need to cap the length of string in software. (Looks at Battlefy...)

A little bit late, but got to go and see Eurovision in person this year.

I've been back from Basel (Switzerland) for less than a day and I already miss the cycle infrastructure. Can Greater Manchester get better cycle infrastructure pls. I enjoy cycling without being rammed off the road by a deliveroo delivery or by a taxi driver in a rush.

I did a 40 min walk from my hotel in France to Germany, and then back just to get Spezi. Am I mad, yes but I've missed having this drink.

Who knew trying to redesign @iplabs.ink's production system, database was such a headache... I'm slowly being reminded why I didn't want to add to the system any more.

Carrying 60m of rope on my shoulders through Manchester while being bugged on the bus was not in my 2025 bingo cards.

Hey all! I'm launching a Kickstarter to help with music and editing for my short film Crybaby! There's affordable tiers and some fun stuff including stickers and an Art Book! Check it out and share around even if you can't afford it!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cry...

With 2024 behind us I've done some work to graph out the Competitive Splatoon Community over the year. To see it graphs and my short write up with them you go here: bit.vlee.me.uk/splat24 Feel free to ask questions

Out of curiosity, would the EU Splatoon Scene want one more @iplabs.ink King of the Castle? A final dual per say, given I never did a final send off. I stopped running it due to low turn out and cause I had work more hours at my then full time job due to client work coming in.

In Low Ink you can *try* and hide your results, but we will find them :) We will find your results...

Reasons not to have @iplabs.ink bluesky in your personal phone.. They don't have per account notification options

I've had enough of clunky Git GUIs I'm really tempted to start designing and making my own.

Did I just break all of @iplabs.ink's Player/team search engine accidentally? Yes.. Did I fix it? I think so...

Decided to rewrite how IPL/Low Ink does player verification and seeding with a brand new system. I think the staff are enjoying the new system as we have it in Alpha atm.

👀 Check out this new update that is OUT NOW for maps.iplabs.ink !

Releasing in 2 days, but you can try it now and let me know if its ready. v2.maps.iplabs.ink

On my way to Breeze Lan... Just 1.5 days late 😅

When you have to throw together a tool to run Battlefy Ladder Tournaments in one week.

Going for a bike trip in the train

Note to self: don't log into the @iplabs.ink Bluesky account on my person phone unless you want a constant stream of notification as more people follow the account. On other hand, we might start to actually use the account one day 😊

Hewwo there, I'm very much new to here, so we'll see what happens to me around here.