// the take
A collection of Google Colab notebooks that spin up either ComfyUI or AUTOMATIC1111 webui preconfigured for Stable Diffusion XL, covering the base/refiner pair, a controlnet workflow, and half a dozen community fine-tuned checkpoints pulled from Civitai. It's for hobbyists who want to poke at SDXL without owning a GPU, not for anyone building on top of the model.
One-click 'Open in Colab' badges for every variant (vanilla v0.9/v1.0, controlnet, refiner-paired) so there's no local environment to set up. Covers both major UIs (ComfyUI and AUTOMATIC1111 webui) rather than locking you into one. Includes dreambooth/LoRA fine-tuning notebooks (both diffusers and autotrain paths) alongside the inference notebooks.
There's no actual software here — it's glue notebooks downloading and launching other people's projects (Stability-AI's generative-models, ComfyUI, various Civitai checkpoints), so its value lives or dies on links that outlive it or don't. README is flagged 'WIP' and the repo hasn't been touched since May 2024, meaning it predates a year and a half of SDXL tooling and Colab policy changes — several of these notebooks are likely broken now (Civitai takedowns, Colab GPU restrictions on automated model downloads, upstream repo changes). Free-tier Colab GPUs routinely get flagged or throttled for this kind of automated large-model workload, so reliability is out of this repo's hands. No way to verify any notebook still runs; there are no CI checks, no issue triage visible, and the author's own badge links point to Twitter/Discord/Patreon rather than any maintenance signal.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →