diff --git a/src/dat/nbt.c b/src/dat/nbt.c
index 9af98ff..746742a 100644
--- a/src/dat/nbt.c
+++ b/src/dat/nbt.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 #include "../util/compat/endian.h"
-#include "../util/types.h"
+#include "../util/intdef.h"
 
 int nbt_primsize(u8 tag) {
 	switch (tag) {
diff --git a/src/dat/nbt.h b/src/dat/nbt.h
index 4693546..429b108 100644
--- a/src/dat/nbt.h
+++ b/src/dat/nbt.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 #include "../util/atrb.h"
 #include "../util/compat/endian.h"
-#include "../util/types.h"
+#include "../util/intdef.h"
 
 /* NBT (named binary tag) is a tree data structure. Tags have a numeric type ID, name and a payload.
  * NBT files are a compressed `compound` tag. GZip is the compression used in most cases,
diff --git a/src/io/render.c b/src/io/render.c
index 83fb4d3..9caf13f 100644
--- a/src/io/render.c
+++ b/src/io/render.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include <stdint.h>
 
 #include "../error.h"
-#include "../util/types.h"
+#include "../util/intdef.h"
 #include "shader.h"
 
 #define VERTC 3
diff --git a/src/util/conf.c b/src/util/conf.c
index b2483a4..df10c4a 100644
--- a/src/util/conf.c
+++ b/src/util/conf.c
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
 
 #include "../error.h"
 #include "atrb.h"
-#include "types.h"
+#include "intdef.h"
 
-int conf_procbuf(char const *restrict buf, char *restrict kout, char *restrict vout, size_t len) {
+int conf_procbuf(const char *restrict buf, char *restrict kout, char *restrict vout, size_t len) {
 	bool feq = false; // whether we've found the equal sign
 
 	// data traversal
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int conf_procbuf(char const *restrict buf, char *restrict kout, char *restrict v
 	return (pos == kout) ? CONF_ENODAT : (!feq ? CONF_ESYNTAX : 0);
 }
 
-struct conf_entry const *conf_matchopt(struct conf_entry const *opts, size_t optc, char const *restrict key) {
+struct conf_entry const *conf_matchopt(struct conf_entry const *opts, size_t optc, const char *restrict key) {
 	// find a match for the current key
 	size_t i = 0;
 	for (; i < optc; i++) {
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ struct conf_entry const *conf_matchopt(struct conf_entry const *opts, size_t opt
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-int conf_procval(struct conf_entry const *opt, char const *restrict val) {
+int conf_procval(struct conf_entry const *opt, const char *restrict val) {
 	// parse the data
 	errno = 0;
 	char *end;
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ int conf_procval(struct conf_entry const *opt, char const *restrict val) {
 }
 
 /* utility function for conf_getpat to concatenate 3 strings, where we already know the size */
-NONNULL(1, 3) static char *conf_getpat_concat(char const *restrict s1, char const *restrict s2, char const *restrict s3, size_t s1len, size_t s2len, size_t s3len) {
+NONNULL(1, 3)
+static char *conf_getpat_concat(const char *restrict s1, const char *restrict s2, const char *restrict s3, size_t s1len, size_t s2len, size_t s3len) {
 	assert(s2 || (!s2 && !s2len)); // ensuring the programmer passes both s2 and s2len as 0, if they intend to
 	char *buf, *ptr;
 
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ NONNULL(1, 3) static char *conf_getpat_concat(char const *restrict s1, char cons
 }
 
 /* appends str to the config directory string we acquire from environment variables. */
-char *conf_getpat(char const *restrict str) {
+char *conf_getpat(const char *restrict str) {
 	char *buf = NULL;
 	size_t len;
 	size_t str_len = strlen(str);
diff --git a/src/util/conf.h b/src/util/conf.h
index 141ae2a..8b2d51f 100644
--- a/src/util/conf.h
+++ b/src/util/conf.h
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #include <stddef.h>
-#include <stdint.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
 #include "atrb.h"
+#include "intdef.h"
 
 /* error codes */
 enum conf_err {
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct conf_fstr {
 struct conf_entry {
 	const char *key; // the key of this entry
 	void *out;       // the pointer to which the data is written value is read if the given option is incorrect or missing
-	uint8_t type;    // the primitive type which we are querying for
+	u8 type;         // the primitive type which we are querying for
 };
 
 /* processes an incoming buffer.
diff --git a/src/util/types.h b/src/util/types.h
deleted file mode 120000
index 2d2c767..0000000
--- a/src/util/types.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-intdef.h
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/util/vec.h b/src/util/vec.h
index d22b85b..e3573d2 100644
--- a/src/util/vec.h
+++ b/src/util/vec.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-#include "types.h"
+#include "intdef.h"
 
 #if defined(__has_attribute) && __has_attribute(vector_size)
 typedef float fvec2 __attribute__((vector_size(sizeof(float) * 2))); // SMID vector for 2 `float`