diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/json-plot/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/json-plot/default.nix
index 9b43518a87d2..39c4b45cd1d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/json-plot/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/json-plot/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 { lib
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, buildGoPackage
+, fetchpatch
+, buildGoModule
 }:
-# upstream is pretty stale, but it still works, so until they merge module
-# support we have to use gopath: see sgreben/jp#29
-buildGoPackage rec {
+buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "json-plot";
   version = "1.1.12";
 
@@ -15,7 +14,17 @@ buildGoPackage rec {
     hash = "sha256-WWARAh/CF3lGli3VLRzAGaCA8xQyryPi8WcuwvdInjk=";
   };
 
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/sgreben/jp";
+  vendorHash = "sha256-EPrlaUHAGATNFv3qgWKGmJdu9EHsV/0DJKEvQck+fWc=";
+
+  patches = [
+    # Add Go Modules support
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/sgreben/jp/commit/9516fb4d7c5b011071b4063ea8e8e9667e57a777.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-Vz5HnStrCpMN1L7dne7JDX5F57up3EBPPf/9hN9opRc=";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  ldflags = [ "-s" "-w" ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Dead simple terminal plots from JSON (or CSV) data. Bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, histograms and heatmaps are supported.";