diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index c2f2194..91e1b9f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ require (
 	go.bug.st/serial v1.5.0
 	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20230425010034-47ecfdc1ba53
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.7.0
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 )
 
 require (
@@ -20,5 +21,4 @@ require (
 	github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.0 // indirect
 	github.com/xrash/smetrics v0.0.0-20201216005158-039620a65673 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index ce96a2f..35f89ec 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191119224855-298f0cb1881e/go.mod h1:b+2E5dAYhXwXZwtn
 golang.org/x/tools v0.1.12/go.mod h1:hNGJHUnrk76NpqgfD5Aqm5Crs+Hm0VOH/i9J2+nxYbc=
 golang.org/x/tools v0.4.0/go.mod h1:UE5sM2OK9E/d67R0ANs2xJizIymRP5gJU295PvKXxjQ=
 golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20190717185122-a985d3407aa7/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0=
+gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405 h1:yhCVgyC4o1eVCa2tZl7eS0r+SDo693bJlVdllGtEeKM=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=
diff --git a/skylab/skylab.go b/skylab/skylab.go
index dd60f84..b2e3bc2 100644
--- a/skylab/skylab.go
+++ b/skylab/skylab.go
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ import (
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"math"
+
+	// this is needed so that we can run make_skylab.go
+	// without this, the yaml library will be removed
+	// when we run `go mod tidy`
+	_ "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
 )
 
 /*
@@ -90,7 +95,6 @@ type BusEvent struct {
 	Data      Packet  `json:"data"`
 }
 
-// FIXME: handle Name field.
 func (e *BusEvent) MarshalJSON() (b []byte, err error) {
 	// create the underlying raw event
 	j := &jsonRawEvent{
@@ -125,7 +129,6 @@ func (e *BusEvent) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-// FIXME: handle name field.
 func (e *BusEvent) MarshalMsg(b []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 
 	// we need to send the bytes as a []byte instead of
diff --git a/skylab/skylab_gen.go b/skylab/skylab_gen.go
index 2346992..698d78c 100644
--- a/skylab/skylab_gen.go
+++ b/skylab/skylab_gen.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// generated by gen_skylab.go at 2023-05-28 19:37:49.492566781 -0500 CDT m=+0.002675778 DO NOT EDIT!
+// generated by gen_skylab.go at 2023-05-29 13:32:54.641838299 -0500 CDT m=+0.002791417 DO NOT EDIT!
 
 package skylab