I'll let you into a little secret.

I've been a software contractor for nearly 30 years. Christ, where did the time go?

For much of that time, I had more side hustles than main hustles. In fact, my little software ventures often made three or four times what I earned from my actual contracting work.

And a lot of that involved offshore development teams.

Good Lord, did I earn that money.

It was lucrative. Very lucrative. But I swear, it was some of the hardest money I've ever earned.

I distinctly remember nearly launching a telephone through my monitor when a developer in Mumbai confidently informed me that PHP couldn't make a SOAP call.

PHP. Couldn't. Make. A. SOAP. Call.

I think I aged about seven years that afternoon.

I've had code delivered that made me question whether the person writing it had ever actually seen a computer before.…