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Technical debt has become a common term when discussing the quality and maintainability of code. There are a lot of definitions of the debt, but they all have some things in common, that debt are the things in the solution that should be fixed but haven’t been fixed yet. This could include everything from lack of documentation or test coverage to code complexity. The debt might not have been there from the beginning, but rather been introduce while the solution grows. Another common denominator is that the debt will increase the cost of continued development within the solution. This can be seen in several different ways, for example adding a feature to a complex codebase would require more time than adding the same feature to the simple. ...

One of the most common tips you hear in regard to security is to not click links, but how malicious can a link be in this day and age? In this article I’ll discuss the risks I see and what impact they may have, to initiate a discussion about these risks. The thing about the internet today is that everything is links, and many sites such as twitter and bit.ly use link shortening to track usage and hide the original address. This makes it hard to know beforehand if the link is legit, and thus might increase the risk, but the impact will be the same. Here are four risks that I see when clicking a link. ...