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Fred Jawa

@fredjawa.bsky.social

Boston-based software engineer and musician. Not dead yet.

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blowupthemoonJun 20, 2026

You Aren't Doing Agile

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re starting a new job in software and you ask someone from your new team about their process and how work is prioritized. They say something about being an Agile team and working in sprints (one or two weeks in length, usually), but you look at the backlog and see tickets that won’t be worked on for several months with specific acceptance criteria and story points attached, linked to some sort of planning document that stretches out for months or even...

blowupthemoonNov 29, 2024

A little about me

Unlike many of the big names in blogging, I don’t have an existing audience from a long career in journalism or another form of writing. I imagine this is actually both a blessing and a curse; it might be nice to have people reading my work, but I don’t have any expectations that I have to meet. One thing that it definitely is, however, is a blog where anybody that reads it will have no idea who the hell I am or what my plan is for my writing here, so it’s probably a good idea to start there. Hi...

blowupthemoonNov 17, 2024

Listen, I'm not saying we should let leopards eat people's faces, but we should at least be able to discuss it

(Thumbnail image from https://x.com/SykesCharlie/status/1773356409754685598) It’s always nice to see my state in the news, but frequently that coverage is too positive for my taste. I can only read so much about the Celtics’ incredible championship run last season or about how Drake Maye has looked better than Caleb Williams so far this season* before it starts to get old. Thankfully, Representative Seth Moulton has taken matters into his own hands and provided us all with some negative Massachu...