So @arturo182 started me on this project.
Initial attempt at including the silkscreen generator: github.com/sparkfunX/Buzzard in KiCad.
I think it's actually working quite nicely.
my first PIC programmer -- for the PIC16C84. i built this over 20 years ago. the parts were my first @digikey order. it connected to the parallel port and used a BASIC program to burn the chip!