diff --git a/extra/db/info/info.factor b/extra/db/info/info.factor
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..66409f2834
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/db/info/info.factor
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+USING: accessors sequences generalizations io.encodings.utf8 db.postgresql parser combinators vocabs.parser db.sqlite
+io.files ;
+IN: db.info
+! having sensative (and likely to change) information directly in source code seems a bad idea
+: get-info ( -- lines ) current-vocab name>> "vocab:" "/dbinfo.txt" surround utf8 file-lines ;
+SYNTAX: get-psql-info <postgresql-db> get-info 5 firstn
+    {
+        [ >>host ]
+        [ >>port ]
+        [ >>username ]
+        [ [ f ] [ ] if-empty >>password ]
+        [ >>database ]
+    } spread parsed ;
+
+SYNTAX: get-sqlite-info get-info first <sqlite-db> parsed ;
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diff --git a/extra/persistency/persistency.factor b/extra/persistency/persistency.factor
index 8100bce353..1604c66b40 100644
--- a/extra/persistency/persistency.factor
+++ b/extra/persistency/persistency.factor
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ SYNTAX: STORED-TUPLE: parse-tuple-definition [ drop persistent ] dip [ remove-ty
 : get-tuple ( query -- tuple ) [ select-tuple ] w/db ;
 : store-tuple ( tuple -- ) [ insert-tuple ] w/db ;
 : modify-tuple ( tuple -- ) [ update-tuple ] w/db ;
-: remove-tuples ( tuple -- ) [ delete-tuples ] w/db ;
+: remove-tuples ( tuple -- ) [ delete-tuples ] w/db ;
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diff --git a/extra/recipes/recipes.factor b/extra/recipes/recipes.factor
index 4ad9397504..528663d370 100644
--- a/extra/recipes/recipes.factor
+++ b/extra/recipes/recipes.factor
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 USING: accessors arrays colors.constants combinators db.queries
-db.sqlite db.tuples db.types io.files.temp kernel locals math
+db.info db.tuples db.types kernel locals math
 monads persistency sequences sequences.extras ui ui.frp.gadgets
 ui.frp.layout ui.frp.signals ui.gadgets.labels
 ui.gadgets.scrollers ui.pens.solid ;
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ IN: recipes
 
 STORED-TUPLE: recipe { title { VARCHAR 100 } } { votes INTEGER } { txt TEXT } { genre { VARCHAR 100 } } ;
 : <recipe> ( title genre text -- recipe ) recipe new swap >>txt swap >>genre swap >>title 0 >>votes ;
-"recipes.db" temp-file <sqlite-db> recipe define-db
+get-psql-info recipe define-db
 : top-recipes ( offset search -- recipes ) <query> T{ recipe } rot >>title >>tuple
     "votes" >>order 30 >>limit swap >>offset get-tuples ;
 : top-genres ( -- genres ) f f top-recipes [ genre>> ] map prune 4 (head-slice) ;
diff --git a/extra/ui/frp/gadgets/gadgets.factor b/extra/ui/frp/gadgets/gadgets.factor
index f39ca3accd..59dfd987a8 100644
--- a/extra/ui/frp/gadgets/gadgets.factor
+++ b/extra/ui/frp/gadgets/gadgets.factor
@@ -76,6 +76,4 @@ INSTANCE: gadget-monad monad
 INSTANCE: gadget monad
 M: gadget monad-of drop gadget-monad ;
 M: gadget-monad return drop <gadget> swap >>model ;
-M: gadget >>= output-model [ swap call( x -- y ) ] curry ; 
-
-! Make sure prop removal really destroys normal db code
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+M: gadget >>= output-model [ swap call( x -- y ) ] curry ; 
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