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@badgids ·Chattanooga, TN

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Badgids (Alan Guice) Technologist · Computer Scientist & Software Engineer · Project Manager Musician · Maker · Community Advocate I build practical systems where technology, creative work, and real-world problem…

Badgids

(Alan Guice)

Technologist · Computer Scientist & Software Engineer · Project ManagerMusician · Maker · Community Advocate

I build practical systems where technology, creative work, and real-world problem solving meet.

“Keep the neurons firing!”

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🚀 Currently building: ComfyUI Setup Manager

> A standalone control center for installing, launching, updating, repairing, inspecting, exporting, importing, and sharing ComfyUI installations, models, and workflows.

![Repository](https://github.com/badgids/comfyui-setup-manager)
![License](https://github.com/badgids/comfyui-setup-manager/blob/main/LICENSE)
![Last commit](https://github.com/badgids/comfyui-setup-manager/commits/main)

ComfyUI Setup Manager combines a compact Textual TUI with a complete automation-friendly CLI. It manages multiple ComfyUI installations without forcing every setup to duplicate huge model and workflow libraries.

Install, launch, update, repair, inspect, roll back, and remove ComfyUI setups.
Share models and workflows safely across multiple installations.
Export and import portable YAML-based setup profiles and workflow packs.
Manage custom nodes, models, LoRAs, workflows, Agent Skills, and MCP definitions.
Use every important feature through either the TUI or text, JSON, and YAML CLI output.
Validate dependencies and custom-node startup before declaring an installation healthy.

Python · Textual · ComfyUI · YAML · CLI/TUI · Linux · WSL2 · Windows

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About me

I am a Chattanooga-area technologist, project manager, musician, digital creator, woodworker, outdoorsman, and community advocate. Online, I work as Badgids. My path has never fit neatly into one lane: I move between structured systems and creative chaos, especially where the rules are still being written.

Across open-source AI, emerging industries, community organizing, music, digital media, and physical craft, I tend to serve as a builder, organizer, communicator, and translator between worlds. I am more interested in how a system behaves in real use than in polished hype around it.

🧠 Technology & AI: Python, automation, local inference, LLM experimentation, ComfyUI, open-source model engineering, agent tooling, and practical software.
🧭 Project leadership: Organizing cross-functional work in uncertain, fast-changing environments and translating goals, constraints, and execution.
🎵 Music & media: Writing, producing, and releasing original music as Dead Man's Mandolin, alongside years of YouTube experimentation and documentation.
🪵 Craftsmanship: Building tangible work through RockCreek ShopWorks, with a focus on woodworking and respect for the material.
⚖️ Community advocacy: Public communication and organizing around bail reform, pretrial justice, incarceration, equity, and community accountability.
🏕️ Outdoors: An Eagle Scout and lifelong camper, hiker, bushcrafter, and curious student of history, archaeology, and the natural world.

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The through-line

Technology, AI & open source

My technical work emphasizes practical experimentation: build it, run it locally, find where it breaks, and make it useful. That has included automation and bots, real-time Whisper transcription, local generative-AI workflows, autonomous CAD experiments with CadQuery and CQparts, and open-source model work on Hugging Face.

I develop and merge GGUF models such as Gonzo-Chat-7B-GGUF, built for local inference with tools including llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio. I also work with ComfyUI, Flux GGUF, PuLID, local CUDA systems, and agent-compatible engineering skills.

Civic leadership & criminal justice advocacy

Before my work at Snapdragon Hemp, I created the Hamilton County Community Bail Fund in partnership with CALEB—Chattanoogans in Action for Love, Equality and Benevolence. During this period, I also served as a Director of CALEB through a highly active era of bail-reform and pretrial-justice organizing.

I was interviewed about bail funds and pretrial detention in at least five local newspaper articles, including coverage by the *Chattanooga Times Free Press* and the *Cleveland Daily Banner*. I also co-hosted a local talk-radio program covering bail reform, criminal justice policy, community accountability, and equity.

Project management in an emerging industry

After my bail-fund and CALEB work, I served as a Project Manager at Snapdragon Hemp during the hemp and CBD industry's early expansion. I coordinated work across business goals, operational realities, and a rapidly changing regulatory environment around the Farm Bill era. The job demanded comfort with uncertainty—the kind of environment where I do some of my best work.

Music, YouTube & creative work

Music is not a side note in my life; it is another way I design systems, pacing, structure, atmosphere, and meaning. As Dead Man's Mandolin, I write and produce original work that pulls together roots instrumentation, gothic atmosphere, indie-rock energy, and heavier influences.

My YouTube channel began with prolific bushcraft, camping, gear, and DIY experimentation and grew to include technology, commentary, creative work, and ongoing project documentation. I use video as a public workshop and an archive of ideas in motion.

Woodworking, the outdoors & making real things

The discipline and outdoor foundation I developed as an Eagle Scout still shapes how I work. Through RockCreek ShopWorks, I bring that mindset into woodworking—turning raw material into useful, carefully made pieces while staying connected to traditional building, the outdoors, and hands-on problem solving.

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Selected work

| Project | What it explores |
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| ComfyUI Setup Manager | Portable, repairable, multi-install ComfyUI management through a full TUI and CLI. |
| Gonzo-Chat-7B-GGUF | A merged 7B conversational model optimized for local GGUF inference. |
| Gonzo-Code-7B-GGUF | A locally runnable merged model focused on coding and agent-oriented work. |
| OpenKlyde | An open-source Discord bot project; collaboration and help are welcome. |
| Transcription App | Real-time transcription experiments powered by OpenAI Whisper. |

I am especially interested in collaborating on machine learning, applied AI, local inference, automation, agent systems, and open-source tools. Ask me about computer science, programming, ML/AI, ComfyUI, or turning an ambitious idea into a working system.

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Journey so far

| Era | Focus |
| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Foundation | Earned the rank of Eagle Scout; built a lifelong foundation in leadership, outdoor skills, service, and environmental appreciation. |
| Early digital creation | Became a prolific YouTube bushcraft creator, documenting outdoor skills, gear, experiments, and DIY problem solving. |
| Community leadership | Created the Hamilton County Community Bail Fund in partnership with CALEB; served as a CALEB director, public spokesperson, newspaper interviewee, and local talk-radio co-host. |
| Emerging-industry leadership | After the bail-fund and CALEB work, served as Project Manager at Snapdragon Hemp during the Farm Bill transition and Tennessee hemp industry's rapid growth. |
| 2023–2024 | Published Gonzo Chat and Gonzo Code models on Hugging Face and developed Python, bot, transcription, and local-inference projects. |
| 2026 | Expanded advanced local ComfyUI workflows and autonomous engineering work using CadQuery, CQparts, Agent Skills, and AI-assisted assembly interpretation. |
| Now | Building ComfyUI Setup Manager while continuing open-source AI work, music, YouTube creation, woodworking, and outdoor exploration. |

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Core toolkit

!Python
!ComfyUI
!PyTorch
!Hugging Face
!llama.cpp
!CadQuery
!Textual
!Godot
!Git
!Linux
!Windows
!CUDA

📋 Languages I use

!C
!C++
!C#
!Java
!Python
!Lua
!JavaScript
!TypeScript
!YAML
!HTML5
!CSS3
!Markdown
!LaTeX

📚 Frameworks, platforms & libraries

!.NET
!Anaconda
!Angular
!Chart.js
!Electron
!Express
!FastAPI
!Flask
!jQuery
!npm
!Next.js
!Node.js
!OpenCV
!OpenGL
!p5.js
!Poetry
!Qt
!React
!Svelte
!Tailwind CSS
![Three.js](https://img.shields.io/badge/Three.js-161B22?style=fla

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