1. video - there is a video in the original post 2. job - i have to explore on the job all the time, i don't have the stuff at home 3. creating a vm for making dev environments, what i was thinking this part of the thread is about 4. abstracting away the entire os setup and seeing that combination of os+app as just an app, i would consider that an abstraction, and not just a pattern, but the pattern being trying to think along these things of what can be abstracted in this way. not trying to combine or confuse the terms.