diff --git a/up b/up
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--- a/up
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!env ruby
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'digest/md5'
-require 'net/scp'
-require 'open-uri'
-require 'ruby-progressbar'
-
-files = []
-
-Net::SCP.start("i.am-a.cat", "arachnist") do |scp|
-    ARGV.each do |path|
-        ext = "." + path.sub(/.*[.]([^.]*)/, '\1') if path.match(/[^.]+[.][^.]+/)
-        content = open(path).read
-        files << {
-            :title => path.sub(/.*\//, ''),
-            :ext => ext,
-            :md5 => Digest::MD5.hexdigest(content),
-            :content => content,
-            :size => content.bytes.count
-        }
-    end
-
-    files.each do |f|
-        p = ProgressBar.create(:title => f[:title], :total => f[:size], :format => '%t | %E | %w>')
-
-        scp.upload! StringIO.new(f[:content]), "/home/arachnist/public_html/c/#{f[:md5]}#{f[:ext]}" do |ch, name, sent, total|
-            p.progress = sent
-        end
-
-        puts "\t=> https://arachnist.is-a.cat/c/#{f[:md5]}#{f[:ext]}"
-    end
-end
diff --git a/up.rb b/up.rb
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+++ b/up.rb
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+#!env ruby
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'digest/md5'
+require 'net/scp'
+require 'open-uri'
+
+# set up all the constants here, in case we ever need to change them
+UPLOAD_BASE_PATH = "/home/arachnist/public_html/c/"
+LINK_BASE_PATH = "https://arachnist.is-a.cat/c/"
+HOST = "i.am-a.cat"
+USER = "arachnist"
+
+ARGV.each do |path|
+    Process.fork {
+        # add the dot here, so that if we get a file without dot, we don't have
+        # to conditionally add the dot later on
+        ext = "." + path.sub(/.*[.]([^.]*)/, '\1') if path.match(/[^.]+[.][^.]+/)
+        content = open(path).read
+        md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(content)
+        Net::SCP.start(HOST, USER) do |scp|
+            # basically a glorified syntax sugar for (ext.nil? ? "" : ext)
+            begin
+                scp.upload!(StringIO.new(content), UPLOAD_BASE_PATH + md5 + ext)
+            # we probably tried to add nil to a string ("ext" could possibly be nil)
+            rescue TypeError
+                scp.upload!(StringIO.new(content), UPLOAD_BASE_PATH + md5)
+            end
+        end
+        printf("%s\n\t=> %s%s%s\n", path, LINK_BASE_PATH, md5, ext)
+    }
+end
+
+Process.waitall
+