iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/09/2026

Kenney always making us indies proud. Go buy his asset packs if you can. It is a great investment both for you and indirectly for people who benefit from his free assets.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 07/09/2026

Don't use GenAI as well for anything. It doesn't belong in development/art/writing. As an open-source maintainer, I like my work to have reproducible steps and my userbase to know the projects are managed by someone who cares for the process. That is to me a scientific/professional/caring approach.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 26/08/2026

Great passion and talent + #NoAI: what could possibly be better? The trailer is awesome as well, do not miss it!

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 14/08/2026

🔥 (to be released) New usability feature for Nodezator With the new "ziplining" feature, users can shift-click a connection in order to be transported to the next node instantly. This can be used to traverse the graph back and forth. #python #pygame-ce #open-source #node-editing #foss

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 24/07/2026

❤️ Cute lil nodes (if I may say so myself) ❤️ Nodezator's work in progress: nodes will automatically shrink to save space. They'll also expand to house bigger elements (this means users will be able to change the size of widgets). #Python #pygame-ce #nodeediting

This image demonstrates the visual impact of changes I'm currently implementing on the Nodezator node editor, more specifically in the size of the nodes.

It shows 02 groups of nodes.

The first group at the top half is formed by nodes that look before the changes, that is, how they look currently.

The second group at the bottom half is formed by nodes as they will look after I finish and publish the changes. They smaller (and cuter, if I may say so myself).

Although not shown in the image, the nodes can also increase in size if needed (for instance, if a widget needs more space).

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 22/06/2026

That will no doubt come back to haunt the maintainers by harming the maintainability of the project. Any amount of leniency allows vibed code, which is made with no reproducible steps, to gradually grow in size. As an open-source maintainer myself I recommend and practice a zero-tolerance policy.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 19/06/2026

Sim. As bets estão adoecendo ainda mais a saúde financeira do país q já não está lá estas coisas, e aumentando ainda mais a desigualdade.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 12/06/2026

As a former chemistry student, I realized that from day one: from the notion of rate-limiting step we can infer that all tasks for which AI relies on people to correct it's course the speed with which the task advances depends on the slowest phase, which is the rate at which a person can revise.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 10/06/2026

My honest feelings about the fact I don't use genAI/LLMs. I mean no disrespect to anyone or their personal choices. Thank God I remembered this cartoon. The underlying premise fits so perfectly. Original art by Caio "Furfles" Slitka, retext/edit by me.

A three-panel cartoon where a person on the left interacts with a group of five people on the right.

In the first panel, the person on the left screams "It's impossible not to use AI, blah blah blah" while the group is discussing their common taste of not using AI (which is indicated by no-AI symbols displayed over their heads).

In the second panel the group goes silent while one of its members gives a big stoic thumbs up to the person on the left to acknowledge the message was heard.

Then in the last panel, the group resumes its discussion about their common taste of not using AI while the person on the left remains silent, staring at the group.

The original version of this cartoon is from Caio "Furfles" Slitka. It was retexted/edited by me.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 03/06/2026

To me, like books, games are a small piece of people's souls. As long as they are made with love and without genAI/LLMs. Wish everyone had the chance to make at least one game in their life before they die. A mini-game would suffice, as well, for the smallest experience can still hold a soul piece.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 30/05/2026

Useful thread. I suspect I saw a very blatant case of this on Discord the other day.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 20/05/2026

Desenvolvedora acidentada e hospitalizada. Quem puder ajudar, segue a notícia com mais informações.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 13/05/2026

🧵 This is how I tried to make the action of teleporting in and out of a mission area (level) more cohesive. As seen below, the first thing that happens is Blue teleporting into the mission's area. Notice the satellite dish near the spot where he lands. #indiedev #Python #pygame #pygame-ce

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 06/05/2026

🧡 N estou envolvido diretamente, mas n poderia deixar de compartilhar esta campanha, pois é mt relevante: "demissão pós retorno da licença maternidade é inadimissível". A campanha ajuda mães nesta situação a retornar ao mercado de trabalho, promovendo mais diversidade na tecnologia.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 27/04/2026

🔥 Me chamo Kennedy e tenho o prazer de anunciar o lançamento da primeira missão do meu jogo gratuito e de código aberto: Bionic Blue 0.13.0! Instale com "pip install --upgrade bionicblue" ou acesse github.com/IndieSmiths/... e siga instruções. #python #pygame #indiebr #indiedev

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 23/04/2026

🔥 I'm Kennedy, happy to announce the release of my first ever vertical slice of my free and open-source game (fully playable 1st mission): Bionic Blue 0.13.0! Install w/ "pip install --upgrade bionicblue" or download on github.com/IndieSmiths/... and follow instructions. #python #pygame #indiedev

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 17/04/2026

Always great to learn about new elegant gamedev solutions

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 17/04/2026

I have to say, of all the clever things I have done in making this game, the most useful has possibly been having it take screenshots every time an action occurs for when I go back to debug an issue. It is so nice having a chain of screenshots to look at in addition to the stack trace and logs.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 17/02/2026

🔥 Look at this beauty I made with Python and Textual to help me w/ my gamedev work! It simply lists all sound files in the current folder and allows me to play each one w/ a single click! I know it looks simplistic, but believe me, this is all it needs to be very helpful. Allow me to explain...

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 11/02/2026

Scripted scene system (+ dialogue management) for the Bionic Blue game. github.com/IndieSmiths/... (beware: vid shows unfinished/unreleased content not yet in the main branch; official release of the full first level should happen, hopefully, in a month or so) #python #pygame-ce #gamedev #indiedev

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 03/02/2026

I do appreciate the fact that according to Python my oversights/mistakes are only exceptions, though. What a kind language.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 16/01/2026

Mr. Birkett always with exciting and creative new projects.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 19/11/2025

🔥 Nodezator used to teach image processing/editing with OpenCV #Nodezator #Python #pygame-ce #education #node-editing #node-editors #open-source #public-domain

Two kids in a classroom, each facing their own computer display showing the Nodezator app (desktop generalist Python node editor).

Several kids in a classroom, each facing their own computer display showing the Nodezator app (desktop generalist Python node editor). The background also shows a presentation software's slide projected on a surface. The slide shows a screenshot of Nodezator and text explaining steps to be followed by the kids, in French.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 14/10/2025

Another awesome Kenney's update almost out of the oven.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 13/10/2025

Language support feature I implemented recently (it is not on the main branch yet because I'll only merge everything in a month or two when I release the first level of the game) #gamedev #indiedev #indiebr #python #pygame-ce

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 01/09/2025

2D camera tracking for the Bionic Blue game (open-source public domain serious game project in active development). Playable content shown isn't available yet, but I hope to release it this month or next one, as soon as it is ready (intro level with a boss fight). github.com/IndieSmiths/...

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 19/08/2025

Thank you for your invaluable service to the gamedev community worldwide. They are well-made enough to be used as final art, but even their usage as placeholder art is already very useful and can save a lot of time and money in both pre-production and production.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 15/08/2025

Since many people started following me recently, I'll present myself again. I'm Kennedy and I make open-source public domain apps and games. The flagship of my projects is the generalist Python node editor called Nodezator. github.com/IndieSmiths/...

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GitHub - IndieSmiths/nodezator: A generalist Python node editor

A generalist Python node editor. Contribute to IndieSmiths/nodezator development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 03/08/2025

This is of great utility: removing artificially generated content from duckduckgo image search results. Sharing and bookmarking.

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Tom Dörr @tom-doerr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Visual node editor for Python code using connected functions

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 06/07/2025

New awesome work from Kenney to be released, as always!

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 26/06/2025

Decided to give To Be Hero X a chance. Just watched the first episode completely blind and I have to say: My Arcane Academia goes hard! And I say that as a compliment to all 03 shows.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 12/06/2025

This is awesome. Sharing and bookmarking!

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 11/06/2025

🔥 A recent breakthrough in my Python/pygame-ce research and coding practice is a feature that I call level chunk management. Demonstrated in the video and explained in the thread below. 🧵👇 #pygame-ce #pygame #Python 1/11

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 04/06/2025

🔥 University professor Pierre Chauvet shared a collection of Python functions/nodes using OpenCV for image processing that can be used in Nodezator (generalist Python node editor). Or used on your own projects. Everything free and on the public domain. Links and more in the thread below 🧵👇 1/9

Node graph demonstrating an image loaded depicting blood cells, then having the contours of the cells highlighted and their number counted.

Node graph demonstrating the dilate and erode image operations.

Node graph demonstrating a loaded image depicting a strawberry basked and then the same image reproduced twice, one in grayscale and another with the RGB channels inverted.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 24/05/2025

Sharing and bookmarking a TUI book from a great author

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 09/05/2025

Você pode ver ou apenas ouvir nossa entrevista com Gabriel Pereira (Ingresse), criador do RefactorEx, uma ferramenta para refatorar código Elixir. Foi o TCC do Gabriel na UFV. #ElixirLang open.spotify.com/episode/60tc...

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RefactorEx: Refatoração em Elixir, com Gabriel Pereira

Elixir em Foco · Episode

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 07/05/2025

Decided to add Rust to my toolbelt because of the many interesting and critical problems it solves, so I set out to learn it last month. Here's what I managed to do so far (it is barely a prototype though). Crate: crates.io/crates/shmup GitHub repo: github.com/IndieSmiths/...

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 09/04/2025

👋 Hello! I'm Kennedy. I present you: ➡️ Nodezator, a Python node editor, and ➡️ Bionic Blue (WIP), 2D platformer game Both in the public domain here: 🌐 github.com/IndieSmiths Indie Smiths is a personal project to promote and provide fun, learning & value with open-source apps, games and content.

Screenshot of the node editor called Nodezator. It shows a node layout with interconnected nodes displaying the image of a basket full of strawberries and an edited version of such image.

An animated gif showing the Bionic Blue game. A pixel art 2D action platformer game where you control a bionic boy called Blue that uses a blue suit. In the gif Blue appears climbing a ladder than he jumps into higher ground where he charges an attack which he shoots at robots.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 06/04/2025

@eternalskiestcg.bsky.social would you please add Jole to one of your solo dev starter packs? Has an awesome, charming project made with pygame-ce, no less. bsky.app/profile/jole...

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