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Underlost is Tyler Rilling, a Python web developer, UX designer, and marketing consultant, living in Seattle, Washington. They are probably not an Undertale game. 👾

As a full-stack developer, I specialize in Python, ReactJS, Building APIs and REST frameworks with content management systems like WordPress and Ghost, and various other technology stacks. Currently the lead developer at an interactive design agency in Seattle, Washington. I also offer various consulting services

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  • Blogging in 2021: The Rise of Newsletters

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Gatsby Just Docs

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Gatsby Just Docs

Gatsby Just Docs is a powerful MDX-based authoring framework for building great documentation.

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Retrieving Spotify Search Results via API

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Retrieving Spotify Search Results via API

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Ghost 5.x on Fly.io with AWS S3 Support

Setting up a Ghost 5.x Docker container with S3 image hosting.

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Seattle WordPress Theme

A Headless WordPress theme for photography blogs.

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Social Media Predictions for 2023

I haven’t been on social media for most of 2022, so it’s been fascinating watching bits of news coming out about Twitter and all of the platforms that are quickly popping up. I thought it might be fun to predict what might happen in social media over the next year.

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Watch Dogs Legion

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Watch Dogs Legion

I hacked the game about hackers to make it more fun.

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Retrieving Spotify Search Results via API

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Retrieving Spotify Search Results via API

I'm building a pretty simple music search function in a new project right now, powered by Spotify’s web API. In a lot of the StackOverflow threads and tutorials I found, they give examples of using Spotify’s API, but with front-end user authentication. For my project, I don’t really need (or want to) require users to sign into Spotify to access some of the basic functions like search. The problem, however, to use the Search API requires you to authenticate to retrieve an access token, which the

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Gatsby Just Docs

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Gatsby Just Docs

Gatsby Just Docs is a powerful MDX-based authoring framework for building great documentation.

By: Tyler Rilling
Reading Time: 1 min read

A simple GeoJSON serializer

Hacking Django Rest Framework to give me data I can use in Mapbox.

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Games I’m Playing in 2022

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Games I’m Playing in 2022

A regularly updated list of games I'm playing in 2022.

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I know where the bodies are buried.

Being indispensable as a developer is never a good position to be in, and can actually be self-destructive to your career.

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Newsletter Issue #0

An ongoing story of a burnt-out developer that still wants to do way too much.

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