diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 711f826..6454a36 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -34,4 +34,3 @@ zepto:
 
 zsh:
 	cp zshrc ~/.zshrc
-	cp pip-upgrade ~/.pip-upgrade 
diff --git a/pip-upgrade b/pip-upgrade
deleted file mode 100644
index f36c956..0000000
--- a/pip-upgrade
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-import pip
-import sys
-from subprocess import call
-
-skip=('setuptools', 'pip', 'python', 'disco', 'multitask',
-      'AudioPython', 'flann', 'vboxapi', 'Loopy', 'autojit',
-      'llvmpy')
-
-dists = pip.get_installed_distributions(skip=skip)
-dist_names = " ".join([dist.project_name for dist in dists])
-if sys.argv[1] == "2":
-    call("pip2.7 install --upgrade " + dist_names, shell=True)
-elif sys.argv[1] == "3":
-    call("pip3.5 install --upgrade " + dist_names, shell=True)
diff --git a/zshrc b/zshrc
index 4e88fc3..ac6c4b5 100644
--- a/zshrc
+++ b/zshrc
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ export CARP_DIR=$GH_HOME/Carp/
 export EDITOR=vim
 alias dob="git branch --merged | grep -vE '(\*)|(master)|(dev)' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d"
 alias vi="stty stop '' -ixoff ; stty erase '^?'; vim"
-alias gcc="gcc-7"
-alias g++="g++-7"
+alias gcc="gcc-8"
+alias g++="g++-8"
 alias mk="make"
 alias g="git"
 alias virtualenv2="python2.7 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py"
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ save_dotfiles(){
     cp ~/.gitconfig ${DOTPATH}gitconfig
     cp ~/.gitignore ${DOTPATH}gitignore
     cp ~/.inputrc ${DOTPATH}inputrc
-    cp ~/.pip-upgrade ${DOTPATH}pip-upgrade
     cp ~/.pythonrc ${DOTPATH}pythonrc
     cp ~/.valgrindrc ${DOTPATH}valgrindrc
     cp ~/.vimrc ${DOTPATH}vimrc