Joseph Silva
Links
- Instagram profile
- Lemmy highlights
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Videos that I made (mainly funny YouTube poops)
- Reddit profile
- Picture of me
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Nerdy stuff
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Pansystellar early prototype
- This project involves coding and writing, aims to create an unconventional category of learning experience, and is hard to explain. It's basically education + self-help.
- Status of the main topics covered:
- Bravery and social skills: Currently the biggest part, only because it's the oldest part. Many parts are likely to be a very poor choice of words and be misunderstood. I've never been very successful at precisely describing my mental model of this topic, and the difference between Pansystellar and my mental model has been growing. Some parts might be completely wrong because I haven't taken all possible scenarios into account and I sometimes add things without being totally sure that they are correct (because Pansystellar is made with an engineering mindset and isn't finished yet). If you use Pansystellar in search of wisdom (as opposed to just being curious about what I'm creating), you must use your own judgement, and you might wanna email me with questions. Pansystellar's modules about this topic desperately need a complete overhaul.
- Using public transit: It's a very new and incomplete part, but you might find it helpful. I'm not totally against driving a car instead of using public transit, but teaching about public transit is a much higher priority because many people grow up without learning it.
- Software engineering: This doesn't exist in Pansystellar yet, but adding it is a high priority.
- Codeberg repositories
- GitHub profile (mostly shows other people's repositories that I contribute to)
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.). Sometimes other things like writing fictional stories. 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.
I dread sleeping, showering, etc.
Political beliefs
For the Unites
States at
least:
- The top priority right now is to end the first-past-the-post
voting
system. That's
what will
enable
someone like
Peter Sonski
to win some
day.
- Deportation
is rarely or
never the right
choice.
- No one
deserves the
death penalty.
- Today's
monetary
economic
system is
repulsive,
even if it's the
best system
so far. Nearly
everything the
government
does to it is
bandaid
solutions, and
it's hard for
me to know
which bandaid
solutions to
support. I am
interested in
the Venus
Project but my
opinion of it is
complicated.
The
government
should stop
doing things
that unjustly
hinder
progress
away from
use of money,
such as
property tax and allowing some things to be patented.
- Local
authority is
usually better.
Simplicity and
safety are not
valued
enough in
federal
government.
- Politicians
are obligated
to declare and
pursue a goal
of abortions
never
happening.
"Safe, legal,
rare" is not
okay. Abortion
bans must be
carefully
designed to
not make
doctors afraid
of getting in
trouble for
something
other than
abortion.
- Medical
schools must
be required to
teach about
alternatives to
unethical
things, to
prevent things
like doctors
falsely
thinking an
abortion is
necessary,
doctors
recommendin
g birth control
pills in too
many cases,
doctors
yelling at
someone
saying to get
sterilized, etc.
- We have a
duty to vote in
every election
and fill the
entire ballot.
- I don't know
how to label
myself, other
than
independent.
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.
To reduce traffic, costs, and emissions, I avoid having premarital car. I usually use feet, bicycle, or bus.
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.
- Matrix chat: @dullbananas:matrix.org
- Email: dull.bananas0@gmail.com
Dating or romance or whatever to call it
I'm single and I'm called to marriage, but I'm not open to pursuing romantic relationships right now. I made this decision in April 2026. This will hopefully change later this year.
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