diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index e0cc9d0..ffd38c2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -17,18 +17,3 @@ server](https://discord.gg/CBzE3VMb) under the handle renerocksai
 Pull-requests and issues are, of course, welcome, too - and may be, for the time
 being, the most both sane and GitHub-friendly way of communicating.
 
-## The git pre-commit hook
-
-This hook is checking for src/deps/facilio in the file list that
-only lets you go through with the operation if a specific env var is set
-
-why is that? we don't use a fork of facilio. we use their repo as submodule. on
-build, we apply a patch to the submodule. after applying, the submodule is
-dirty. it refers to a new head only present on the current machine. if we were
-to commit the submodule now and push those changes, future git submodule update
---init calls will fail on fresh clones of the repo. We want to avoid this
-mistake that easily happens if you use a `git add . && git commit` workflow. On
-the other hand, if upstream facilio changes, we still want to be able to upgrade
-to it by pulling the changes and recording the new head via git commit to our
-own repo. Hence, just ignoring the submodule via `.gitignore` is not an option.
-That's why we introduced the hook (// that gets installed on build.)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5748a86..d2e5713 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -94,8 +94,14 @@ If you don't have an existing zig project, create one like this:
 ```shell 
 $ mkdir zaptest && cd zaptest
 $ zig init-exe
-$ git init 
+$ git init      ## (optional)
 ```
+**Note 1**: Zap is developed with zig master (0.11.0-dev.1602+d976b4e4a at the
+time of writing). This version of zig has the package management features in
+place that are used in the following instructions. Nix users are lucky; you can
+use the existing `flake.nix` and run `nix develop` to get a development shell
+providing zig, and also all dependencies to build the and run the GO, python, 
+and rust examples for the `wrk` performance tests.
 
 With an existing zig project, adding zap to it is easy:
 
@@ -122,10 +128,13 @@ To add zap to `build.zig.zon`:
 }
 ```
 
-Note: change the URLs to the latest commit of `zap` and `facil.io` (my fork).
+**Note 2**: change the URLs to the latest commit of `zap` and `facil.io`
+respectively (my fork). The latter is unlikely to change; but `zap` is likely to
+change more frequently.
 
-Then, add the following at the top of your `build.zig`'s `build` function, add
-the following before `exe.install()`:
+
+Then, in your `build.zig`'s `build` function, add the following before
+`exe.install()`:
 
 ```zig 
     const zap = b.dependency("zap", .{
@@ -222,7 +231,7 @@ pub fn main() !void {
     var listener = zap.SimpleHttpListener.init(.{
         .port = 3000,
         .on_request = on_request,
-        .log = false,
+        .log = true,
     });
     try listener.listen();