Joseph Silva

Religion

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.

Interests

Most of the time, at least when I have a lot of free time, what I'm most passionate about doing is making things on my computer (computer programming, etc.) and things involving humor (making YTPs, participating in improv comedy, etc.). My hobbies vary a lot.

Singing is my favorite way to be musical. With some songs, singing in a choir is a magical experience. I'm part of Outreach Choir at ASU. We sing to elderly people at assisted living communities.

I spontaneously go to the gym every 1 to 2 weeks.

Occasionally, I find it hard to take a break during computer programming, because of excitement about a possible improvement to code.

A little bit of the things I find interesting and beautiful: rabbits, the outdoors, the Catholic Church, and the libre software movement.

It's very hard to provide a broad view of my interests.

Personality

I'm either ambivert or introvert.

I enjoy one-to-one conversation if it's with someone who talks about interesting things and has an enjoyable and comforting presence.

I'm often quiet in big groups, but some things I do make me seem brave.

In the five-factor model, I definitely have at least conscientiousness and openness to experience.

I think I can change the world.

I'm described as non-judgmental.

Other

Currently at Arizona State University for software engineering degree. A software engineering career would be good. 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, provide requested assistance, etc.

Links

Contact

Feel free to contact me here regardless of how you found my website or of where you discovered me. Feel free to try multiple methods if I don't respond.

Dating or romance or whatever to call it

I'm single.

I'm probably open to long distance relationship, because marriage with the right person is awesome enough to warrant that kind of patience and effort if needed.

I definitely want to enter the life of a Catholic woman who wants to raise Catholic children, will uphold Catholic teachings related to marriage, and is close enough to my age. I don't know for sure what kind of woman would be best for me, but I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally want you to DM me if you are emotional, sweet, weird, and bubbly.

I often consider shifting my perspective so that I see my purusit of marriage mainly as a service. In other words, "she didn't find me yet" instead of "I didn't find someone yet". It's very hard to maintain such a perspective. It helps to look for inspiration from the way in which priests see their vocation.


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