Antonio Rodríguez Martínez
Builder. Father. Boricua 🇵🇷
I'm Antonio, antoniwan on most of the internet. By day I'm a technical program manager at Stanley Black & Decker. I write essays at Notes, build small web things, and make music. Boricua in Florida, and a father, which is where most of the writing comes from.
For consulting or anything business, go to Strong Hands, Soft Heart, my company. This site has no contact form on purpose.
Writing
I write at Notes: essays on fatherhood, philosophy, culture and work, and the recipes we cook at home. Every post is also served as markdown. Older essays are on Medium.
- Panda and Wolf: Two Vaults to Map a Person
I set out to tidy an Obsidian vault and spend fewer tokens. A week later I had Panda and Wolf, one rule about honesty, and a question: am I mapping a person?
- Redefining God
God is Dead. God is Love.
- Briefly, on the Tao
A quote in my morning coffee books told me that the further I search the less I know, so I went and checked the Chinese, found it was not quite Lao Tzu, and spent the rest of the day proving its point.
- Forging the 'Stronghand' Terminal — September 2026 Update
Sixteen months after building an elaborate Windows terminal, almost none of it is left. What sixteen months of actual usage revealed about this machine, and the small setup that survived.
- Captured, Not Pathetic
Pathetic is the easy judgment. The alpha fable is a captured idea.
Work
- Stanley Black & Decker
My day job since 2021, on SBD Digital: product architecture, the web platform behind the brands, design systems, AI prototypes, and mentoring.
- Strong Hands, Soft Heart
My company. AI and engineering consulting now, soap later. It publishes the picture books.
Picture books
- Mia, the Sun, and the Moon
A bilingual picture book about a curious girl, the sun, and the moon. Free to read, in English or Spanish.
- The Bent One
A short red line with a bend, and the shapes a line can take depending on where it stands and who it is with.
Elsewhere
- GitHub
Code and open source.
- GitHub, the company
Strong Hands, Soft Heart repositories.
- CodePen
UI experiments.
- Goodreads
What I read.
- Patreon
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