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

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A Reintroduction of Sorts

Blogging is Weird

A Reintroduction of Sorts

Rediscovering my Identity, pursuing new ventures, and embracing authenticity as an independent creator.

Posted in: Blogging is Weird, Personal
By: Tyler Rilling
Reading Time: 3 min read

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. Formerly a lead developer at an interactive design agency in Seattle, Washington, now I've started my own small consulting & development agency

Noteworthy Posts

  • A Reintroduction of Sorts

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  • Say Hello to underlost.xyz

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  • Gatsby Just Docs

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  • I know where the bodies are buried.

    3 min read
  • I Use This

    4 min read
  • I built a Micro Blogging Tool for Ghost

    2 min read
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Retrieving Spotify Search Results via API

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Games I’m Playing in 2022

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Games I played in 2021

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Games I played in 2021

Boredable.

News and updates on building a new, but boring social network.

Latest Project Updates

  • Why are you building (another) social network?

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  • I’m building Boredable, a new yet familiar, social network.

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Project MetaLost Version 0.6.1

A completely free Unreal Engine Metahuman model and set of assets you can use in your next Unreal project, with animation rigging support for Mixamo and other popular libraries.

Coming Summer 2023.

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Recent Posts

Checking in on my Social Media Predictions 6 months later

In a blog post at the end of 2022, I had a little fun making some predictions about the social media landscape for the upcoming year. It’s time to revisit those predictions and see how they’re holding up.

4 min read

Why are you building (another) social network?

With Threads, Bluesky, Cohost, Hive, Mastodon, and a seemingly new platform popping up every week, you might wonder why I’m choosing to build my own platform...

2 min read
A Reintroduction of Sorts

Blogging is Weird

A Reintroduction of Sorts

Rediscovering my Identity, pursuing new ventures, and embracing authenticity as an independent creator.

By: Tyler Rilling
Reading Time: 3 min read

Say Hello to underlost.xyz

Almost a year ago, I started part-time consulting and have now embarked on creating my own social network for fun. It feels like the right moment to introduce underlost.xyz, my new little web development studio!

1 min read

Underlost is not just an Undertale thing

The Undertale community loves to create some fascinating pieces of art though.

2 min read
Games I'm Playing in 2023

Games I'm Playing in 2023

A regularly updated list of everything I’ve been playing in 2023.

By: Tyler Rilling
Reading Time: 6 min read

I’m building Boredable, a new yet familiar, social network.

Last year, I found myself unplugging from the world of social media entirely. I bid farewell to Facebook, deactivated Instagram, and turned my back on Twitter. It was a liberating, yet revealing experience.

2 min read

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

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

2 min read

Seattle WordPress Theme

A Headless WordPress theme for photography blogs.

1 min read

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.

4 min read
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