About

I'm Rick Fry, a technology leader in Fort Collins, Colorado, with more than 30 years in software. For over 20 of them, I've led teams and set technical direction as a development manager, software architect, data engineer and analytics manager.

I still build, because leaders who stay hands-on make better calls. These days that's mostly .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core, Native AOT) and PostgreSQL, on Linux servers and Windows desktops. I care about software that's fast, secure and boring to operate. When there's a quick fix and a right fix, I take the right one.

Lately I've been leading a different kind of team: a crew of AI agents. They write code and review each other's work, while I set the direction, review the changes and decide what ships. It's the same job as running a dev team, at a very different speed. You can read how that works in A dev team of one human and three AI agents.

What's here​

• Projects: things I've built and run, with screenshots and the design behind them.
• Articles: longer pieces on what I'm building and what I've learned along the way.
• How-tos: short, tested, step-by-step guides.

The name​

The name? I wanted something a little nerdy and a little cool. One of my AI agents kept suggesting "wren", and then came up with sudowren.