diff --git a/bin.org b/bin.org
index 293e07e..756680a 100644
--- a/bin.org
+++ b/bin.org
@@ -980,74 +980,6 @@ if ($valid){
 exit 0;
 #+END_SRC
 
-* ~/bin/portchk
-
-Just find out if a port responds to anything tcp related or not.
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC perl :padline no :tangle tmp/bin/portchk
-#!/usr/bin/env perl
-#
-# Dumb wrapper to get the gecos information from a uid/username.
-
-foreach my $input (@ARGV){
-  my $gecos = undef;
-  my $uid = undef;
-  my $name = undef;
-  if ( $input =~ m/^\d+$/ ) {
-    ( $name,$uid,$gecos ) = ( getpwuid($input) )[0,2,6];
-  } else {
-    ( $name,$uid,$gecos ) = ( getpwnam($input) )[0,2,6];
-  }
-  print "$name is '$gecos' uid '$uid'\n" if $gecos;
-}
-#+END_SRC
-
-* TODO ~/bin/nix-update still worth keeping?                       :cleaning:
-
-More for nix on macos, but just merges NixOS/nipkgs origin/master to the current branch in a tmux window and watches it.
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh :padline no :tangle (tangle/file "bin/nix-update" (bound-and-true-p nix-p)) :mkdirp t
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-#-*-mode: Shell-script; coding: utf-8;-*-
-# File: tmux-nix.sh
-# Copyright: 2017 Mitch Tishmack
-# Description: instantiate tmux nix session
-export script=$(basename "$0")
-export dir=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)
-export iam=${dir}/${script}
-set -e
-
-session=nix
-PKGS=${PKGS:-nixpkgs}
-
-if "${PKGS}" != "nixpkgs"; then
-  cd ~/src/github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/${PKGS}
-else
-  cd ~/src/github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
-fi
-
-if ! tmux has-session -t ${session}; then
-  tmux new-session -d -s ${session} -n nix
-  tmux send-keys -t ${session}:0 'sleep 30
-while true; do
-blah=$(nix-env -f "<${PKGS}>" -iA --dry-run stdboth default | grep /nix); echo "${blah}" | head -n $(echo "$LINES - 2" | bc); echo "${blah}" | grep -c /nix | ts
-echo "${blah}" | grep /nix > /dev/null 2>&1
-if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-  sleep 60
-  clear
-else
-  exit 0
-fi
-done
-' C-m
-  tmux split-window -v -t ${session}:0
-  tmux send-keys -t ${session}:0.1 'git fetch --all && git short HEAD > last-$(iso8601) && git rebase --autostash origin/staging &&
-time nix-env -f "<${PKGS}>" -iA default && nix-env -f "<${PKGS}>" -u --leq && exit 0
-' C-m
-  tmux select-window -t ${session}:0
-fi
-tmux attach -t ${session}
-#+END_SRC
 * ~/bin/notify
 
 OSX only really, just fires off a notification when its ran.
@@ -1056,53 +988,25 @@ Example:
 notify "some command" "not ok"
 
 First param is the message, second title of the notification.
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh :padline no :tangle (tangle/file "bin/notify" (bound-and-true-p macos-p))
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh :padline no :tangle (tangle/file "bin/notify" (bound-and-true-p macos-p)) :mkdirp t
 #!/bin/sh
-message=${1:="no message"}
-title=''
-if [ "${2}" != "" ]; then
-  message="${2}"
-  title="${1}"
+message=${1:-"no message"}; shift
+extra=""
+if [ -n "${1}" ]; then
+  extra="with title \"${1}\""
 fi
-notification="display notification \"${message}\""
-[ "${title}" != "" ] && notification="${notification} with title \"${title}\""
 
-osascript -e "${notification}"
+osascript <<END
+display notification "${message}" ${extra}
+END
 #+END_SRC
 
-* ~/bin/today
-
-Stupid ruby script I wrote to highlight the week/day in a calendar. I don't remember why I wrote it.
-
-TODO: why the hell is :mkdirp yes needed here but nowhere else?
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC ruby :padline no :tangle tmp/bin/today :mkdirp t
-#!/usr/bin/env ruby
-cal, today, week_color, day_color, reset = %x(cal).split(%r(\n)), Time.now.day, %x(tput sgr0;tput setab 4;tput setaf 7), %x(tput sgr0; tput setab 0;tput setaf 7;tput bold), %x(tput sgr0)
-done=false
-cal.each do |line|
-  if done then
-    puts line
-    next
-  end
-  if(line =~ /^(.*\s+?)#{today}(\s+?.*)$/ or
-     line =~ /^(.*\s+?)#{today}$/ or
-     line =~ /^()#{today}(\s+?.*)$/ or
-     line =~ /^#{today}$/ ) then
-    puts "#{week_color}#{$1}#{day_color}#{today}#{week_color}#{$2}#{reset}"
-    done=true
-  else
-    puts line
-  end
-end
-#+END_SRC
 * ~/bin/close
 
 macos only, simple wrapper around osascript to send close to a gui application so I don't have to use the mouse/trackpad cause I'm lazy af.
 
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh :padline no :tangle (tangle/file "bin/close" (bound-and-true-p macos-p))
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh :padline no :tangle (tangle/file "bin/close" (bound-and-true-p macos-p)) :mkdirp t
 #!/bin/sh
-
 if [ -z "${1}" ]; then
   printf "usage: close app_name\n  no application to close provided\n"
   exit 1