Bob Armstrong
Sole Proprietor at CoSy
Woodland Park, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBob Armstrong is a seasoned sole proprietor and software developer with nine years of formal experience building niche language-driven systems, notably combining APL and FORTH to create a commercial, APL-informed CoSy "notecomputing" environment. Since 1980 he has led CoSy, applying deep expertise in language design to projects such as a planetary temperature model implemented in 4th.CoSy and other computational tools. His background blends rigorous academic training in psychophysics and experimental psychology (BS/MA/MS, Northwestern) with hands-on engineering, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on human-centered computing. Bob has also communicated technical and philosophical ideas to broader audiences through his "Logic of Liberty" column, reflecting an interest in liberty and systems thinking beyond code. Based in Woodland Park, Colorado, he maintains a long-running public vita and project hub at CoSy.com, underscoring a decades-long commitment to bespoke language and modeling work.
9 years of coding experience
highschool, physics, highschool, physics at Culver Military AcademyMaster's degree, Experimental Psychology, Master's degree, Experimental Psychology at Northwestern UniversityMaster's degrees, math psychophysics, Master's degrees, math psychophysics at Culver Academies , Northwestern U
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Github Skills (11)
safari-extension10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension10
chrome9
userstyle9
browser9
apl9
github8
nim-language7
x867
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
CoSyBob/CoSy
Feb 2017 - Feb 2020
CoSy APL NoteComputing environment in open x86 Reva Forth
Contributions:158 commits, 17 PRs, 180 pushes in 3 years
aplperl5x86revaforth
refined-github/refined-github
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
:octocat: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
Contributions:4 comments in 1 year 11 months
browserchromefirefox-addonbrowser-extensionsafari-extension
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