to smooth cloth with a smoothing iron

But O Cook, O Thomas Cook & Son,[…]with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone’s throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the way!

Dr. Smith is making a tour of the world push-biking from place to place, forwarding whatever he finds interesting along his travels.

All three developers are in a position common enough that it even has a name in the community. They have been sherlocked.