I wrote two apps for android giving me access to health data of food, stored in a local database to work without net access.
Then I wrote a software to mass-balance rotors with many exchangeable blades. Also software to encode/decode hex strings containing certain formated data. Both for windows.
This happened sometimes several years inbetween. Scripting in bash, perl, php python for other computer and homecontrol stuff.
As a hobby programmer I tought programming myself. Coming from VB6 era (I know I know) I sticked to that type of language syntax, not spaghetti code though.
What I want to say is there is sometimes an idea and then stick to it and try to accomplish. Maybe its too complicated at first but then you learn until next time works out. Its a marathon not a sprint.
syncthing fom mobile direct sync to zfs mirror homeserver as soon as within home wlan. Same with PC files.
rclone sync via cron weekly to cloud server, encrypted.
security cams direct encrypted sync to zfs and cloud as soon as something is recorded.