Tag: Schemes

On Technical Debt, Margin Calls, and Ponzi Schemes

Ward Cunningham coined the term “technical debt” to describe a particular category of project issues. Those issues required refactoring to make it easier to work with the codebase but did not affect the final product delivered to the customer. That was thirty years ago. It was...

On Technical Debt, Margin Calls, and Ponzi Schemes

“When I began the Ponzi scheme I believed it would end shortly and I would be able to extricate myself and my clients from the scheme.” — Bernard Madoff. Software developers can be great with numbers but are usually terrible with finances. Ward Cunningham coined the term &ldq...

The Price We Must Pay: Navigating Emissions Trading Schemes

That island is Malta, and to compensate our shortfall here, we import 90% of all our needs, including food, leaving it particularly vulnerable to overseas market changes. The recent surge in inflation, primarily triggered by post-pandemic disruptions and the war in Ukraine, has presented c...