diff --git a/Formula/cowponder.rb b/Formula/cowponder.rb
index e353f0c..45e630f 100644
--- a/Formula/cowponder.rb
+++ b/Formula/cowponder.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 class Cowponder < Formula
   desc "Simple terminal command to display random philosophical thoughts from a cow"
   homepage "https://github.com/maxcai314/homebrew-cowponder"
-  url "https://max.xz.ax/cowponder/cowponder-homebrew-v0.0.2.tar.gz"
-  sha256 "9c0fdb7a962c858e69c3d10a6583da79217e13e6dc95fa7418e9e1e7830a0d44"
+  url "https://max.xz.ax/cowponder/cowponder-homebrew-v0.0.3.tar.gz"
+  sha256 "f9ba2818473e0b74d311a809a1c884ecedfeddfe3b62bf7dc898539a3d4e4ab5"
 
   depends_on "cowsay"
   depends_on "python@3"
diff --git a/resources/Makefile b/resources/Makefile
index a8e4296..306a2cc 100644
--- a/resources/Makefile
+++ b/resources/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 CONTENTS_DIR := ./contents
 BUILD_DIR := .
 INSTALL_DIR := /var/www/max/cowponder
-TARBALL_FILE := cowponder-homebrew-v0.0.2.tar.gz
+TARBALL_FILE := cowponder-homebrew-v0.0.3.tar.gz
+
+PACKAGE_FILE := ../Formula/cowponder.rb
+
+# ANSI color codes
+BLUE := \033[0;34m
+RESET := \033[0m
 
 .PHONY: all clean install
 
@@ -10,9 +16,22 @@ all: $(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARBALL_FILE)
 install: $(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARBALL_FILE)
 	cp $^ $(INSTALL_DIR)
 
+clean:
+	rm -f $(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARBALL_FILE)
+
+# build package and update checksum in ../Formula/cowponder.rb
 $(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARBALL_FILE): $(CONTENTS_DIR)
 	tar -czvf $@ -C $^ .
-	shasum -a 256 $(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARBALL_FILE)
 
-clean:
-	rm -f $(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARBALL_FILE)
+	new_checksum="$$(shasum -a 256 $@ | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" && \
+	echo && printf "new checksum: $(BLUE)$$new_checksum$(RESET)\n" && echo && \
+	awk -v new_checksum="$$new_checksum" '{ \
+		if ($$1 == "sha256") { \
+			print "  sha256 \"" new_checksum "\""; \
+		} else { \
+			print; \
+		} \
+	}' $(PACKAGE_FILE) > $(PACKAGE_FILE).temp && \
+	mv $(PACKAGE_FILE).temp $(PACKAGE_FILE)
+
+	@echo "updated new checksum in $(BLUE)../Formula/cowponder.rb$(RESET)"
diff --git a/resources/contents/cowponder b/resources/contents/cowponder
index 2d97f62..0844848 100755
--- a/resources/contents/cowponder
+++ b/resources/contents/cowponder
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
 
 import argparse
-import requests
 import subprocess
 from random import SystemRandom
 from os import path, popen
@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ is the same software as cowponder and shares a thoughtbook.
 ap.add_argument("-v", "--version", action='store_true', help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
 ap.add_argument("-u", "--update",  action='store_true', help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
 ap.add_argument("-a", "--add", help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
-ap.add_argument("-h", "--help", action="store_true", help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
 arglist = 'bdgpsy'
 for i in arglist:
 	ap.add_argument("-"+i, action="store_true", help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
@@ -51,36 +49,18 @@ for i in arglist:
 args = vars(ap.parse_args())
 
 
-if args["help"]:
-	print(ap.description)
-	exit()
-
 if args['version']:
 	subprocess.run(["brew", "info", "cowponder"])
 	# print("cowponder version 0.0.1")
 	exit()
 
-if args['update']:
-        try:
-                response = requests.get('https://max.xz.ax/cowponder/cowthoughts.txt')
-                if response.status_code == 200:
-                        with open(cowthoughts_path, 'w') as f:
-                                f.write(response.text)
-                        print("updated thoughtbook (moo)")
-                        exit()
-                else:
-                        print("failed to download cowthoughts.txt")
-                        print("no changes written to local cowthoughts file")
-                        exit()
-        except Exception as e:
-                print(f"Error while downloading cowthoughts.txt: {e}")
-                exit()
+if thought := args["add"]:
+        subprocess.run(["ponder", "--add", thought])
+        exit()
 
-if thought := args['add']:
-	with open(cowthoughts_path, "a") as f:
-		print(thought, file=f)
-	subprocess.run(['cowthink', '"' + thought + '" added to thoughtbook'])
-	exit()
+if args["update"]:
+        subprocess.run(["ponder", "--update"])
+        exit()
 
 thought = subprocess.check_output("ponder", shell=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, text=True)
 
diff --git a/resources/cowponder-homebrew-v0.0.2.tar.gz b/resources/cowponder-homebrew-v0.0.2.tar.gz
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