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I’m Not A Nazi Despite My Awesome Gmail Account

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Working in this industry isn’t without its perks. Free drinks and snacks, flexible vacation and early adoption to cool new tech startups.

Let me take you back to a simpler time...

Desk Of Gadget Boxes

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

One of the perks of my job is being able to get cool new gadgets. Some of those gadgets I use all the time and some of those gadgets I use a few times and they end up collecting dust.  Either way, most of the boxes that these gadgets come in, end up on my desk of boxes...

Office Fire

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AUGUST 15, 2017

We just had our first real fire in our office.  There was a smell of something burning but we couldn't initially figure out where it was coming from.

So we turned off the air conditioning but that didn't solve the issue.  The smell kept on getting worse...

Meet Lenny

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JULY 27, 2017

Like any business, we get our fair share of unsolicited phone calls.  The vast majority of those calls are from companies looking for us to outsource our development and design work to them. I guess these companies did not read our policy of not outsourcing...

Gigabit Network Speed

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JULY 10, 2017

On July 4th, a few of us came to the office all day to upgrade our network to support gigabit speeds.   After the upgrade was complete, our internal network was super fast but our Internet speeds topped off at around 250 megabits per second down and 50 megabits per second upload...

A Drone View RustyBrick

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JUNE 22, 2017

Last Friday our first drone arrived to the office, the DJI Spark, which is the first really good pocket sized consumer based drone.  We named our drone the RustyDrone, of course...

Working On The Plane

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JUNE 12, 2017

I use to hate air travel because I dreaded landing after the flight and having to catch up on all the work I missed. The tons of emails, client requests, slack messages and so on...

Google Inside Street View

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JANUARY 4, 2016

I am very excited to say we, RustyBrick, is on Inside Street View within Google Maps.  That means that you can walk through our front door and into our office, explore our main programmer pit, our gaming area, our conference room and even our brick wall - all virtually on Google Maps...

Israel's Rusty Snow Man

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

As some of you know, New York, the RustyBrick headquarters, was blanketed with snow over the weekend. But did you know that Israel had their worst snow storm in decades this weekend?

Many are without power and basic resources...

LTE Speeds At RustyBrick

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This morning I noticed that my wireless provider, AT&T, finally has LTE data speeds at RustyBrick's offices. T-Mobile added it a couple months ago, Verizon and Sprint had it here for ages.

So I decided to run a speed test, using all four networks, on Android devices, via the SpeedTest app from...

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