623: It’s About Human Connection

4841.817 - 4875.244 Marco Arment

So I'm sure he won't mind me sharing this. One of the most ingenious things I ever heard from Underscore is that for one of his apps for analytics, he was just – Having the app just make a URL request to his server and encode a bunch of stuff in the URL. Now, this URL was actually not a real page on his server. It would just 404, which would be logged to the error log, which he could then parse.