I don't dispute there's much great content on public domain sites like Project Gutenberg, but I do find it hard to find things of interest.
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When writing long-lived programs (daemons etc) in Rust, I find myself asking *where* I should put data.
In a GC'd language it's just "I have a string" but Rust forces me to find somewhere to put it.
You do get a performance benefit for this work though.
It's really satisfying to use a profiler for the first time on a project. I always find a big performance win with only a small code change.
It's never the code that I expected to be slow, however!
I'm a fan of the Software Unscripted podcast, and I particularly enjoyed this recent episode about CrowdStrike and security culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjaZssBEiI
The guest (Kelly Shortridge) compares attackers to lawyers trying to find loopholes. This is such a great analogy.