diff --git a/_do_bump_version b/_do_bump_version
index 985ba22..bb7b715 100755
--- a/_do_bump_version
+++ b/_do_bump_version
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ cat > version/version.go  << EOL
 
 package version
 
+const NAME = "gonic"
+const NAME_UPPER = "GONIC"
+const NAME_EMBED = "gonicembed"
+const NAME_SCAN = "gonicscan"
 const VERSION = "$new_version"
 EOL
 
diff --git a/assets/assets_gen.go b/assets/assets_gen.go
index afad5d6..e06cc36 100644
--- a/assets/assets_gen.go
+++ b/assets/assets_gen.go
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ var Bytes = map[string]*EmbeddedAsset{
 0x6d,0x3e,0x0a,0x3c,0x2f,0x64,0x69,0x76,0x3e,0x0a,0x7b,0x7b,0x20,0x65,0x6e,0x64,0x20,0x7d,0x7d,0x0a,
 }},
 "pages/home.tmpl": &EmbeddedAsset{
-	ModTime: time.Unix(1574803343, 0),
+	ModTime: time.Unix(1579270806, 0),
 	Bytes: []byte{
 0x7b,0x7b,0x20,0x64,0x65,0x66,0x69,0x6e,0x65,0x20,0x22,0x75,0x73,0x65,0x72,0x22,0x20,0x7d,0x7d,0x0a,0x3c,0x64,0x69,0x76,
 0x20,0x63,0x6c,0x61,0x73,0x73,0x3d,0x22,0x70,0x61,0x64,0x64,0x65,0x64,0x20,0x62,0x6f,0x78,0x22,0x3e,0x0a,0x20,0x20,0x20,
@@ -10701,7 +10701,7 @@ var Bytes = map[string]*EmbeddedAsset{
 0x55,0x23,0xfe,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x49,0x45,0x4e,0x44,0xae,0x42,0x60,0x82,
 }},
 "static/main.css": &EmbeddedAsset{
-	ModTime: time.Unix(1574803343, 0),
+	ModTime: time.Unix(1579270806, 0),
 	Bytes: []byte{
 0x3a,0x72,0x6f,0x6f,0x74,0x20,0x7b,0x0a,0x20,0x20,0x2d,0x2d,0x70,0x61,0x64,0x2d,0x73,0x69,0x7a,0x65,0x3a,0x20,0x31,0x2e,
 0x37,0x35,0x72,0x65,0x6d,0x3b,0x0a,0x7d,0x0a,0x0a,0x2a,0x2c,0x20,0x73,0x70,0x61,0x6e,0x2c,0x20,0x64,0x69,0x76,0x2c,0x20,
diff --git a/cmd/gonic/main.go b/cmd/gonic/main.go
index 6ed09ae..f7d2e6c 100644
--- a/cmd/gonic/main.go
+++ b/cmd/gonic/main.go
@@ -15,13 +15,8 @@ import (
 	"senan.xyz/g/gonic/version"
 )
 
-const (
-	programName = "gonic"
-	programVar  = "GONIC"
-)
-
 func main() {
-	set := flag.NewFlagSet(programName, flag.ExitOnError)
+	set := flag.NewFlagSet(version.NAME, flag.ExitOnError)
 	listenAddr := set.String("listen-addr", "0.0.0.0:4747", "listen address (optional)")
 	musicPath := set.String("music-path", "", "path to music")
 	dbPath := set.String("db-path", "gonic.db", "path to database (optional)")
@@ -31,7 +26,7 @@ func main() {
 	if err := ff.Parse(set, os.Args[1:],
 		ff.WithConfigFileFlag("config-path"),
 		ff.WithConfigFileParser(ff.PlainParser),
-		ff.WithEnvVarPrefix(programVar),
+		ff.WithEnvVarPrefix(version.NAME_UPPER),
 	); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("error parsing args: %v\n", err)
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/gonicembed/main.go b/cmd/gonicembed/main.go
index 2000eb1..75c1449 100644
--- a/cmd/gonicembed/main.go
+++ b/cmd/gonicembed/main.go
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/peterbourgon/ff"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+
+	"senan.xyz/g/gonic/version"
 )
 
 // once i had this written with ~100% text/template but it was very
@@ -18,8 +20,7 @@ import (
 // but it's pretty fast. which i needed it to for live reloading stuff
 
 const (
-	programName = "gonicembed"
-	byteCols    = 24
+	byteCols = 24
 
 	// begin file template
 	fileHeader = `// file generated with embed tool
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ func processAssets(c *config, files []string) error {
 }
 
 func main() {
-	set := flag.NewFlagSet(programName, flag.ExitOnError)
+	set := flag.NewFlagSet(version.NAME_EMBED, flag.ExitOnError)
 	outPath := set.String(
 		"out-path", "",
 		"generated file's path (required)")
diff --git a/cmd/gonicscan/main.go b/cmd/gonicscan/main.go
index 0ebe7f3..0ed5fb1 100644
--- a/cmd/gonicscan/main.go
+++ b/cmd/gonicscan/main.go
@@ -10,15 +10,11 @@ import (
 
 	"senan.xyz/g/gonic/db"
 	"senan.xyz/g/gonic/scanner"
-)
-
-const (
-	programName = "gonicscan"
-	programVar  = "GONIC"
+	"senan.xyz/g/gonic/version"
 )
 
 func main() {
-	set := flag.NewFlagSet(programName, flag.ExitOnError)
+	set := flag.NewFlagSet(version.NAME_SCAN, flag.ExitOnError)
 	musicPath := set.String(
 		"music-path", "",
 		"path to music")
@@ -26,7 +22,7 @@ func main() {
 		"db-path", "gonic.db",
 		"path to database (optional)")
 	if err := ff.Parse(set, os.Args[1:],
-		ff.WithEnvVarPrefix(programVar),
+		ff.WithEnvVarPrefix(version.NAME_UPPER),
 	); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("error parsing args: %v\n", err)
 	}
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index c72f6e0..7210498 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -4,4 +4,8 @@
 
 package version
 
+const NAME = "gonic"
+const NAME_UPPER = "GONIC"
+const NAME_EMBED = "gonicembed"
+const NAME_SCAN = "gonicscan"
 const VERSION = "v0.4.3"