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Sarah Niemeyer

Mastering synchronous remote work: Strategies for effective collaboration

At IC, we strongly believe in the power of in-person communication and collaboration. However, with the distributed nature of today’s…

8 min readFeb 27, 2024

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Mastering synchronous remote work: Strategies for effective collaboration

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kyle dean reinford

Git Commands for a Trunk-Based Workflow

Best Practices for Keeping your Git History Linear and Clean

6 min readOct 18, 2023

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Git Commands for a Trunk-Based Workflow

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Sarah Niemeyer

Refactor Culture: When and how should we prioritize refactoring on our teams

As software engineers, we are constantly under pressure to deliver new features, fix bugs, and improve the overall performance of our…

3 min readJun 14, 2023

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Refactor Culture: When and how should we prioritize refactoring on our teams

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Tyson Gern

The Unit in Unit Testing

Increase test maintainability and build confidence

8 min readMar 22, 2023

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The Unit in Unit Testing

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Thomas Fowler

Initial Capacity’s Cloud Native Weekend — How We Engage

Overview

3 min readDec 8, 2022

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Initial Capacity’s Cloud Native Weekend — How We Engage

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Alex Sartan

Software as a communication medium

Source code may be one of the most direct means of communication between developers and tends to be the principal way of conveying…

4 min readNov 23, 2022

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Developers looking at code together during a pair-programming session.

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Sarah Niemeyer

A modern approach to UX methods

A great user experience is all about understanding and aligning your audience, the problem you are solving for them, and your business…

3 min readNov 16, 2022

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A modern approach to UX methods

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Tyson Gern

Initial Engagement

Initial Capacity improves the way software is written while also improving the lives of those who create it

3 min readNov 2, 2022

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A table full of user stories

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Michael Barinek

Introducing Cloud Native Weekend

A modern approach to learning.

4 min readOct 29, 2022

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Introducing Cloud Native Weekend

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Michael Barinek

Initial Capacity Practices

When developing software, we have a tendency to stick to what we know; we use the same technologies and processes, or some slight variation…

6 min readOct 28, 2022

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Initial Capacity Practices

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