# Gil Desmarais

> I build and run systems that move business numbers. Agents are part of how I ship.

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/): I build and run systems that move business numbers. Agents are part of how I ship.
- [About](https://gil.desmarais.de/about/): Background, systems thinking, and how Gil builds.
- [Projects](https://gil.desmarais.de/projects/): Key open-source software, side projects, and tools.
- [Resume](https://gil.desmarais.de/resume/): Software engineer in Berlin who designs, ships, and operates core systems end-to-end. Evidence over assumption; agents in the loop; ISO 27001/C5 compliance delivered alongside product work.
- [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/): Reach Gil Desmarais for hands-on software engineering with direct ownership of outcomes.

## Projects

### html2rss

Status: maintained

Open-source org — turns any website into RSS 2.0 or JSON Feed.

- [Project website](https://html2rss.github.io/)
- [GitHub Organization](https://github.com/html2rss)
- [RubyGems](https://rubygems.org/gems/html2rss/)
- [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/html2rss/web)
- [Kanban Board](https://github.com/orgs/html2rss/projects/3/views/1)

Supply chain: Every release traceable to its source: RubyGems trusted publishing, Docker images with provenance and SBOM.

### moodbar.rs

Status: maintained

Cross-platform Rust toolkit for audio moodbars.

- [Project site + demo](https://gildesmarais.github.io/moodbar.rs/)
- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/gildesmarais/moodbar.rs)
- [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/moodbar)
- [@moodbar/wasm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@moodbar/wasm)
- [@moodbar/native](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@moodbar/native)

Supply chain: Every artifact traceable to its source commit: npm provenance, attested GitHub release builds; crates.io via API token.

### .dotfiles

Status: evergreen

My macOS and CLI config in ~/.dotfiles, linked with rcup.

- [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/gildesmarais/dotfiles)

### jekyll-loading-lazy

Status: legacy

Drop-in lazy loading for Jekyll (img/iframe). Instant performance wins.

- [RubyGems](https://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll-loading-lazy)
- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/gildesmarais/jekyll-loading-lazy)
- [Introduction blog post](https://gil.desmarais.de/blog/loading-images-lazily-with-jekyll/)

Supply chain: Published via API token; no provenance attestation.


## 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.