diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ab5460b..1521c8b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 dist
-server/memelibrary/assets.go
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fa31990..8a745ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,10 +26,8 @@ In Mattermost 5.15 and earlier, follow these steps:
 
 Read our documentation about the [Developer Workflow](https://developers.mattermost.com/extend/plugins/developer-workflow/) and [Developer Setup](https://developers.mattermost.com/extend/plugins/developer-setup/) for more information about developing and extending plugins.
 
-Run `make memelibrary` to bundle up the meme assets (images, fonts, etc.).
-
 For convenience, you can run the plugin from your terminal to preview an image for a given input. For example, on macOS, you can run the following to generate the above meme and open it in Preview:
 
 `go run server/plugin.go -out demo.jpg 'memes. memes everywhere' && open demo.jpg`
 
-This is especially useful when adding or modifying memes as you can quickly modify assets, `make memelibrary`, and preview the result using the above command. (See the files in ` memelibrary/assets` to get started with that.)
+This is especially useful when adding or modifying memes as you can quickly modify assets, and preview the result using the above command. (See the files in ` memelibrary/assets` to get started with that.)
diff --git a/build/custom.mk b/build/custom.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 78d2d48..0000000
--- a/build/custom.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Include custom targets and environment variables here
-
-.DEFAULT_GOAL := all
-
-memelibrary: $(shell find server/memelibrary/assets)
-	env GO111MODULE=off $(GO) get github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/...
-	$(GOPATH)/bin/go-bindata -o server/memelibrary/assets.go -pkg memelibrary -prefix server/memelibrary/assets/ -ignore '(^|/)\..*' server/memelibrary/assets/...
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index ad80ee0..1d413f1 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-memes
 
-go 1.12
+go 1.16
 
 require (
 	github.com/golang/freetype v0.0.0-20170609003504-e2365dfdc4a0
diff --git a/server/memelibrary/assets.go b/server/memelibrary/assets.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d38ae8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/memelibrary/assets.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package memelibrary
+
+import (
+	"embed"
+	"path"
+)
+
+//go:embed assets
+var content embed.FS
+
+func AssetDir(name string) ([]string, error) {
+	entries, err := content.ReadDir(path.Join("assets", name))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	files := make([]string, len(entries))
+	for i, entry := range entries {
+		files[i] = entry.Name()
+	}
+
+	return files, nil
+}
+
+func MustAsset(name string) []byte {
+	data, err := content.ReadFile(path.Join("assets", name))
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return data
+}
diff --git a/server/plugin.go b/server/plugin.go
index 1e2f298..2cd49fa 100644
--- a/server/plugin.go
+++ b/server/plugin.go
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ func serveTemplatePNG(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 }
 
-
 type Plugin struct {
 	plugin.MattermostPlugin