Jesse Black

Jesse Black

Software Architect

Jesse Black has 9 years programming experience that he brings to Stable Kernel as Software Architect. His passion for programming stemmed from a love of logic and some tedious paperwork responsibilities working with his family. Inevitably, he decided to write custom software for his family’s business Salon Harmony, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from New York University. When he’s not working on client software, he enjoys longboarding, television, playing guitar and listening to Phish.

Blog Articles

Leadership: Welcoming Change and Letting Go

At Stable Kernel, we have at least one squad for every department and more than one squad for bigger departments. Initially, a squad was a mini-culture within our company and…

Striking a Balance with UI Tests

Everyone wants well-tested apps, and I know I've been drawn to User Interface testing since Xcode added UI Recording. Not only is it really fun to watch the app move so fast,…

Supporting Accessibility: Larger Text in iOS

iOS 10 is the third version to allow users to specify a size preference under Accessibility: Larger Text. Apple usually gives a runway of 6 months up to a year before they…

Piloting Life in the Fastlane

We as a company have been advocating Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. I mean, who hasn’t? (more…)

Patience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Test-driven development and the mobile development community as a whole is maturing and reinventing traditional paradigms with a mobile twist, i.e., Android's Data Binding Library. (more…)

Xcode 6’s View Debugger

View Debugger is a cool new feature in Xcode 6 providing an interactive way to visualize view hierarchies. (more…)

Debouncing: The Illusion of Immediacy

Over the last eighteen months, stable|kernel has contributed to the phenomenon known as the Internet of Things -- connecting mobile devices to physical devices. (more…)