I thought that migrationg to a static site generator would be a good motivation to spend more time learning Rust ... but once I compiled Rust, and compiled Zola, everything else was just a matter of getting the templating to render well and fiddling with my build-publish workflow. Oh well. I still have a new site that I'm much happier with :)

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been at Microsoft for almost a year now — and that I came down with COVID-19 six and a half months ago. When I look back at the tumultuous political landscape that is 2020, these two events will doubtless color my memories of this year in ways that I can not yet really understand.

The doctors told me that it takes six to eight weeks – on average – for healthy folks with my symptoms to recover. It took more than six months.

It's been two years since I came out. So much has changed. So much has improved.

If 2018 was about accepting that truth, 2019 was about taking action on it..

For starters, I changed all my online profiles this year. I changed my name this year.

I realized that my career choices over the past several years had led me uncomfortably far from my ethics. (More on that later…)

The result? I spent eight months of 2019 uninsured and underemployed, but still very busy.

You gave up everything I’ve spent my life fighting for. I can’t imagine how much you must have been hurting inside to choose to do that.

• Sarah Novotny