The above scenarios show how changing the tool changes the problem. Indeed, Moldable Development can only be practiced through tools. Because tools are front and center in any demonstration of the approach it can be difficult at first to distinguish the concepts from their concrete incarnation.

ndeed, as we can only perceive details related to a software system through tools, it follows that the tools are essential to the act of programming. At the same time, because software is highly contextual, for tools to be effective they also have to be contextual. The above examples are all quite different. In fact, each could be considered as a separate vertical in the software engineering tooling space. Yet, they were all expressed uniformly in the same environment. This shows that these tools are not distinct and that they can be combined and customized arbitrarily. There is just a fluid environment. We do not go to tools. Tools come to us. And we can make them come to us in our terms, in our context. That's the premise of Moldable Development.

In June 2019, we (Bret, Luke, Josh, Paula, Omar, Weiwei) collected all of our Dynamicland-related photos and videos onto a "documentation drive".  The media was organized both by date and by Realtalk project or topic.  We also also made a giant table in Notion of all notable Realtalk projects, with notes and page numbers.  In early 2020, I got media from Toby and Glen, and added the subsequent media from Luke, Josh, and Omar.Last week, I made some Realtalk pages to scan the collection, assign every file an "accession number" of the form DL2018-01-31-debb83.mov(where 2018-01-31 is the date the photo/video was taken, and debb83 is the first six digits of the file's md5), tag the files based on their old directory names and filenames, generate a new directory structure of the form, archived-media/originals/2018/01/DL2018-01-31-debb83.movgenerate thumbnails of the form archived-media/thumbnails/2018/01/DL2018-01-31-debb83.jpgand print out an album.

Open source is not open to most people. Source code in a git repo is not open to everyone. It’s open to the select class of people who know what it means to clone a git repo.