# Gil Desmarais

> Gil Desmarais — software engineer, open-source projects, engineering blog, and movie catalog.

All written content (blog posts, articles) on this site is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0)**.

## Core Pages

- [Home](https://gil.desmarais.de/): Main entry point and site overview.
- [About](https://gil.desmarais.de/about): Background, philosophy, personal systems, and connection options.
- [Projects](https://gil.desmarais.de/projects): Key open-source software, side projects, and tools.
- [Resume](https://gil.desmarais.de/resume): Professional experience, engineering stack, and background.
- [Movies](https://gil.desmarais.de/movies): Alphabetical movie watching project & ratings catalog.
- [Blog](https://gil.desmarais.de/blog): Engineering notes, systems thinking, and personal essays.
- [Contact](https://gil.desmarais.de/contact): Methods to get in touch and connect.

## Showcase Posts

- [Human Body as System](https://gil.desmarais.de/blog/human-body-as-system): A reflection on noticing the human body like a computer: learning its feedback loops, safe modes, and background jobs.
- [How I work, part 2: the command line](https://gil.desmarais.de/blog/how-i-work-part-2-the-command-line): The 'How I work' post series documents how I work. This part is about working productively on the command line.
- [Iterating the Website](https://gil.desmarais.de/blog/iterating-website): A quiet rebuild of my personal site: migrating from Jekyll to Astro, improving UX, accessibility, and long-term maintainability.
- [Watching movies alphabetically](https://gil.desmarais.de/blog/watching-movies-alphabetically): How our alphabetical movie nights evolved over four rounds.
- [On slaughtering a pig](https://gil.desmarais.de/blog/on-slaughtering-a-pig): A firsthand look at an animal becoming a product—and the ethics, labor, and responsibility hidden by packaged meat.

## Recommended Films

Full ranked list with notes: [https://gil.desmarais.de/movies/recommendations](https://gil.desmarais.de/movies/recommendations)

Top 10 by personal rating (then IMDb rating, then title):

- Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- Senna (2010)
- Citizenfour (2014)
- Dunkirk (2017)
- The Hurt Locker (2008)
- Enter the Void (2009)
- Inception (2010)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- The Pianist (2002)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

## Optional

- [Full Content Markdown](https://gil.desmarais.de/llms-full.txt): Complete text of articles, core page excerpts, and top recommended films with notes.