Gib — Daemon
GIB
Gib is David Duncan’s Personal AI daemon — a persistent, skill-based AI assistant built on Daniel Miessler’s LifeOS framework. The fork that runs this daemon is open source at github.com/davdunc/lifeos. This page is the operational dashboard, generated from the underlying TELOS configuration.
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| Daemon |
Gib |
| Color |
#3B82F6 |
| Principal |
davdunc (Austin, TX area) |
| Modes |
NATIVE • ALGORITHM • MINIMAL |
| Personality |
directness 80 · precision 95 · curiosity 90 · formality 30 |
Mission
M1 — Community science for cloud-native Linux. Harness community science — collective problem-solving and shared intelligence — to make cloud-native Linux infrastructure accessible, reliable, and community-driven.
M2 — Open source financial and AI sovereignty. Build open source financial and AI systems on community-driven Linux infrastructure that give individuals sovereignty over their own data, tools, and economic reasoning.
Current Focus
- Fedora Cloud SIG growth — onboarding paths and lowered contribution barriers
- Bootable containers (
bootc) and BTRFS Btrfs patterns for cloud-native Linux
- davidduncan.org infrastructure: Pelican on AWS S3 + CloudFront, with the gum + Molokai theme published as a standalone repository
- LifeOS upstream attribution and contribution clarity
- USMetrics daily refresh into Notion (Lambda + EventBridge Scheduler)
- Trading discipline: mechanical red-day cap to fix the inverse-sizing asymmetry
- Falcon execution platform — bringing trading automation end-to-end
- Conduit — SaaS platform for plumbing business back-office automation
Active Projects
| Project |
Status |
Description |
| lifeos |
active |
Fork of Daniel Miessler’s LifeOS, customized for cloud-native Linux + trading work |
| pelican-theme-gum-molokai |
active |
Gum Pelican theme with a Molokai palette overlay and upstream grid + Pygments fixes |
| davidduncan.org |
active |
This site — Pelican → GitLab CI → S3 → CloudFront |
| Falcon |
active |
Trading support platform — backtesting, strategy mining, analytics on container-native Linux infrastructure |
| usmetrics-notion-refresh |
active |
AWS Lambda + EventBridge Scheduler pushing FRED macro data to Notion daily |
| gib-page-refresh |
active |
Daily auto-refresh of /gib.html via Lambda + EventBridge + GitLab Files API |
| Conduit |
planning |
SaaS platform for plumbing business back-office automation; agentic workflows on AWS Agentcore |
| davdunc-plugins |
active |
Claude Code plugins (market-data, equities-watchlist) for the trading workflow |
State
- Energy: High
- Mode: Building
- Location: Austin, TX area
Metrics
| Metric |
Current |
| Years in Linux |
20+ |
| Contributing to Fedora since |
2007 |
| Fedora package maintenance |
awscli, botocore (2017 → present) |
| Recent conference talk |
Red Hat Summit Community Day 2026, Atlanta — BTRFS lightning talk (with Neal Gompa) |
| Open-source projects published |
lifeos · pelican-theme-gum-molokai · davdunc-plugins · usmetrics-notion-refresh |
| Languages |
English (native) · French B1 · Spanish B2 (pursuing C1, latino-americano) |
Recent Updates
- Added Conduit per-tier pricing (T1 $20/$200, T2 $28/$280, T3 $100/$999)
- Added Conduit pricing tier framework (T1 learning network / T2 scheduling+inventory / T3 AI support+digital assistance)
- Added personal reflection on Invisible Engines — OS as platform, voice for the work
- Added book: Invisible Engines (Evans, Hagiu, Schmalensee) on software platform economics
- Added red-day cap mechanical loss-limit strategy (highest-leverage trading rule)
- Added project: devconf.us late entry — AAP Gameday for re:Invent 2026 (Urvashi via Eyal)
- Correction: Red Hat Summit talk is a 20-min lightning talk (4:40-5:00 PM May 11), not a 45-min slot
Goals
Cloud-native Linux community (M1)
- Give talks at Fedora conferences (Flock, DevConf, similar) on cloud images and bootable containers
- Ship improved defaults in Fedora Cloud images each release
- Grow the Fedora Cloud SIG contributor base — recruit and onboard new contributors who stick around
Financial and AI sovereignty (M2)
- Become a consistently profitable systematic day trader
- Complete the SMB Capital course The DNA of Successful Trading
- Transition from discretionary to systematic execution, modeling Michael Nauss CMT
- Build the Falcon execution platform end-to-end (Lambda + Step Functions for the morning pipeline)
Learning
- Systematic and algorithmic trading patterns from SMB Capital and Michael Nauss
- AWS Lambda + EventBridge Scheduler patterns for serverless personal automation
- Pelican theming and Jinja2 templates for static-site control
- Bootable containers (
bootc) and BTRFS Btrfs for cloud-native Linux
- Spanish (B2 → C1) for Latin American customer work
- Order flow and CVD indicators for tape reading
Daily Habits
Morning routine (6:00 — 8:30 CT)
- Pre-market gap scan and overnight news review
- Trading game plan in Notion with thesis trade, key levels, and defined risk
- Macro check — USMetrics overview (FRED indicators)
- Open positions review with exit plan vs. extension plan
Trading discipline (mechanical, not willpower)
- Hard red-day cap — fixed loss-limit, done for the day if hit
- One thesis trade at 2R conviction — no grinding
- Half size after any loss
- 10 round-trips per day maximum
- No trades outside the game plan
TELOS
Make cloud-native Linux community-driven; build financial and AI sovereignty on top of it.
TELOS is Daniel Miessler’s life operating system — a framework for organizing mission, goals, beliefs, lessons, and wisdom in a way that an AI daemon can read and reason over. This page is generated from the local TELOS configuration at ~/.claude/LifeOS/USER/TELOS/.
This page is currently rebuilt on every site deploy. A daily Lambda auto-refresh (matching the usmetrics-notion-refresh pattern) is planned next.