Hey, welcome back to.NET Rocks, episode 1918. Where are we in history today, Richard? End of World War I. End of World War I.

Wasn't that fun? Ah, beginning of the H1N1 pandemic flu. Yes. That will kill people for the next four years and is still around today.

Yay. I'm Carl Franklin. That's, of course, Richard Campbell. And we're here for episode 1918 with the guy who built Node, Ryan Dahl. We'll talk to him in a minute. But first, it's better know a framework. Awesome. Roll the music. All right, man, what do you got? So I looked for trending repos on GitHub, and I found this amazing app. I haven't used it yet, but it looks amazing. It's still in alpha. It's called Follow. Oh, yeah. And you remember RSS readers, right? Those were all the rage when blogs came out. The good old days. Yeah. Think of this as an RSS reader on steroids. Oh, my. So it's called Follow. It's all about allowing you to follow your favorite websites, blogs, social media accounts, podcasts, and notifications in one place.

And

so it also has AI to assist in operations, provides AI reports to highlight key information for your subscriptions, personal AI knowledge base built from your subscription, uses blockchain as an incentive mechanism for active users and outstanding creators. But more about that, you know, check out some of these pictures, right? of you following the verge of twitter and mastodon and all the socials uh what is it nasa astronomy pictures um so videos from youtube just okay

anything you might subscribe to anything

you might subscribe to yeah that's

interesting and

so it's kind of like that. It's kind

of the old RSS browser on steroids. Yeah. Well, it's good to see. It's not like we stopped needing it. It's just that when they shut down Google Reader, we're all heartbroken and we haven't gotten over it.

Right.