diff --git a/apps/shell/bash/aliases b/apps/shell/bash/aliases
index 89a4311..022baa6 100644
--- a/apps/shell/bash/aliases
+++ b/apps/shell/bash/aliases
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ alias tree='tree -Csuh'
 alias f='fzf'
 alias cp="rsync -ah --progress"
 alias year="cal $(date +%Y)"
+alias y="year"
 
 # gets the newest function for the current directory (or the specified directory
 # if one is provided)
diff --git a/bin/archive b/bin/archive
index 31d8517..dba3675 100755
--- a/bin/archive
+++ b/bin/archive
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-archive_name="${1}.tar.gz"; shift
-tar czvf "${archive_name}" ${@}
+archive_name="${1}.tar.zstd"; shift
+tar --zstd -cvf "${archive_name}" ${@}
 echo "Archive created at: ${archive_name}"
diff --git a/bin/compress b/bin/compress
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b7cfcf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/compress
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+zstd "$@"
diff --git a/bin/decompress b/bin/decompress
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f47ea85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/decompress
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+unzstd "$@"
diff --git a/bin/unarchive b/bin/unarchive
index 6b64366..65b9901 100755
--- a/bin/unarchive
+++ b/bin/unarchive
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ archive_name="${1}"; shift
 to_dir="$(basename $archive_name)"
 mkdir -p "${to_dir}"
 pushd "${to_dir}"
-tar xzvf "${archive_name}"
+tar --zstd -xvf "${archive_name}"
 echo "Unarchived to: ${to_dir}"
 popd