wrote a quick impementing RSS feed blog post

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+One of the beautiful things about Node is that it is really easy to do just about anything in a few lines of code.
+To put this in perspective, it took me longer to make this *terrible* blog post header than it did for me to implement an RSS feed in node. 
+An RSS (rich site summary) feed enables people to subscribe to blogs and get notified when there is a new post.
+People also use RSS feeds to aggregate all the blogs they read in one place.
+Although RSS is on the decline, it is still widely used in the tech community.
+
+Before looked for a package I added a route listening on "/rss" which sends a static object that will eventually store the RSS feed object.
+
+```javascript
+routes.get('/rss', (request, result) =>
+{
+    result.set('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
+    result.send(xmlFeed);
+});
+```
+
+The next step was to find a nifty node package that handles the generation of RSS XML.
+I'm using the [package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rss) adequately named "RSS".
+
+```bash
+npm install -s rss
+```
+
+
+Based on the documentation for the package, I initialized the RSS generator object. 
+
+```
+// defines basic details about your blog
+var feed = new RSS({
+    title: 'jrtechs',
+    description: 'Jeffery\'s blog which has everything from data-science to cooking',
+    feed_url: 'https://jrtechs.net/rss',
+    site_url: 'https://jrtechs.net',
+    image_url: 'https://jrtechs.net/includes/img/favicon/android-chrome-512x512.png',
+    docs: 'https://github.com/jrtechs/NodeJSBlog',
+    language: 'en',
+    categories: ['other', 'hardware', 'open-source', 'programming', 'projects', 'web-development', 'data-science'],
+});
+
+var xmlFeed = feed.xml();
+```
+
+The final step was to add all the recent posts to the RSS feed. 
+
+```javascript
+const sql = require('../utils/sql');
+sql.getRecentPosts().then((posts)=>
+{
+    posts.forEach(post =>
+    {
+        feed.item({
+            title: post.name,
+            url: "https://jrtechs.net/" + post.category + "/" + post.url,
+            date: post.published
+        });
+    });
+    xmlFeed = feed.xml();
+}).catch((err)=>
+{
+    console.log(err);
+});
+```
+
+Although my implementation is probably very rudimentary, it is flexible and implementing it myself gave me a deeper appreciation for RSS.
+Looking through the package documentation, I discovered a multitude of details that RSS feeds could contain that I didn't know about.