diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/thicket/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/thicket/default.nix
index 65a5fdf8de0b..1f331ffd4962 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/thicket/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/thicket/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { lib
-, fetchFromGitHub
 , crystal
+, fetchFromGitHub
 }:
 
 crystal.buildCrystalPackage rec {
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ crystal.buildCrystalPackage rec {
 
   format = "shards";
 
-  shardsFile = ./shards.nix;
   crystalBinaries.thicket.src = "src/thicket.cr";
 
   # there is one test that tries to clone a repo
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/thicket/shards.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/thicket/shards.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c035d332e53..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/thicket/shards.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-  ameba = {
-    owner = "veelenga";
-    repo = "ameba";
-    rev = "v0.14.3";
-    sha256 = "1cfr95xi6hsyxw1wlrh571hc775xhwmssk3k14i8b7dgbwfmm5x1";
-  };
-}