since you mentioned Rust, it can also be a matter of how you approach learning it – maybe learning a game might be more comfortable – as an example, Reddit’s r/roguelikedev links to multiple tutorials in multiple languages (with at least three Rust based options):
specifically, fried chicken is near universal
take a look at one of the “fantasy consoles”, can do quick scripts and see results immediately:
for an actual language, don’t discount Lua – simple, fast, tiny – “real programmers” like to ridicule it, and yet it keeps turning up everywhere from video game scripting to text editor configuration to databases to web servers
work myself to death or die from starvation and exposure – very motivational!
“fingering the contract”
a few pundits have also pointed out that several of these tactics are considered standard-operating-procedure by modern middle management (like multiple, long, pointless meetings)
it’s not even a new problem – my parents told stories of people back in the ’60s building houses on the wrong side of a crack in Pacific Palisades
if it’s a surface level itch
then there’s those damnable itches that feel like they’re buried inside the thenar eminence and there’s no way to deep scratch
“and throw you under the bus when another door falls off”
“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”
“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.”
“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel.
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’”
ImageMagick really is a Swiss Army Knife of usefulness …
a more obscure option is exiftool – and documention
exiftool -progress -d <destination-folder>/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le "-filename<CreateDate" <input-folder>
-progress
verbose and shows an [x/y] progress
-d <destination-folder>/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le
renames to YYYY-mm-dd-HHMMSS-sfx.ext format
and lowercases the extension
"-filename<CreateDate"
uses the image creation date (from EXIF metadata) for the above naming scheme
depends on how you define an app – Freewheeling Apps likes to combine Lua and LÖVE to make quick little GUI apps