My name is Joseph Silva. I make funny YTPs, go on walks, go to gym, code, sing, perform improv comedy, and relax. My project "Pansystellar" involving coding and writing aims to create an unconventional category of learning experience. I like rabbits, libre software movement, Rust lang, and public transit. I think I can change the world. I'm described as non-judgmental. I'm often quiet in big groups, but some things I do make me seem brave.
I'm Catholic. I do a tiny bit of daily prayer and I'm very accepting of God's plan.
In April 2023, during an all-school retreat, I suddenly went to confession and started practicing Catholicism again. It felt like a dream. I took initiative in starting going to Mass again despite my family stopping long before.
I named one of my Rust libraries "i_love_jesus". It's unrelated to Jesus.
I'm part of Outreach Choir at ASU. We sing to elderly people at assisted living communities.
Currently at Arizona State University for software engineering degree. A software engineering career would be good. I might work from home. Although providing for my family will be my top priority, I really really hope I can do that without helping make non-libre software.
I will soon start a comedy club at ASU. The other ones are at a different campus and would have made Jesus weep.
During Reddit's API controversy, I started contributing to Lemmy's server code to help it compete against Reddit. Got promoted to maintainer. (I worked my way up from "I dont see how this improves anything" to "we want to give you write permissions to the repo"!) Still unpaid. I improve performance, improve code style, review others' changes, implement part of new features, and provide requested assistance.
I might be a camp counselor this summer.
I'm single, and probably open to long distance relationship.