Tyler Rilling

A Headless WordPress theme for photography blogs.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love blogs. Ive been building and writing them since the initial conception of underlost in 2001. I’ve built a number of custom publishing platforms for clients, as well as for myself myself.

A regularly updated list of software and services I use.

Underlost originally started as a Gossip Girl-esque blog I maintained during high school. Over the years it morphed into a portfolio piece to show off (and look for) work, and eventually just sort of turned into this testing ground for experimenting with new technology stacks and designs.