This release builds on the foundation of v1.0 with a focus on making the system easier to operate, understand, and use every day.

Better Runtime Visibility

v1.1 improves visibility into what is actually happening behind your local AI stack. Runtime information, active processes, logs, GPU activity, and model status are easier to understand at a glance.

The goal remains simple: serious local inference starts with the hardware, and that hardware should be a first-class part of the experience.

Improved Benchmarks

The benchmark experience has been refined to make testing and comparing local models more practical, with a cleaner interface and improved usability across different screen sizes.

UI/UX Improvements and Polish

A broad round of interface improvements, usability fixes, and general polish has gone into v1.1, tightening up the experience across LLM Controller without changing what already worked.

LLM Controller CE is continuing to evolve as a self-hosted, local-first control layer for running and understanding local AI.

v1.1 is available now!

https://github.com/tensioncore/llm-controller-ce

After more than 16 months of development, I'm excited to finally release LLM Controller Community Edition (CE) v1.0 as open-source software.

LLM Controller CE is a self-hosted, local-first web application for running and managing GGUF language models through llama-server It combines conversations, model management, runtime control, benchmarking, GPU monitoring, live logs, installation, and administration into a single browser interface.

The goal was never to build just another chat interface. I wanted local AI to feel like a complete product that you can install, manage, and use on hardware you control.

LLM Controller CE has been validated on both Windows and Ubuntu Linux, supports NVIDIA and AMD GPU environments where compatible tooling is available, and is released under the GPLv3 open-source license.

This has been one of the largest software projects I've built, and I'm incredibly happy to finally share it.

I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed building it!

Rasberry™ Hosting is currently undergoing infrastructure work while the static IP setup is converted to a routed subnet.

Downtime is already in effect and is expected to last until at least Friday evening.

This is a major step forward for Rasberry™.

The upgrade improves routing, infrastructure control, hosting flexibility, and future service expansion - including our first full public subnet. 🌐

Rasberry™ is steadily becoming a real hosting platform!

More soon.

A quick update from the everything-is-moving-at-once department.

LLM Controller CE 1.0 is now in final testing before release, with the launch currently targeting June 6. What started as an experiment last February has fully evolved into complete software, and I’m now testing it in as many different configurations as I can before calling Version 1.0 done.

Alongside that, I’m still working through the broader stabilization of the nickdodd.com codebase. A lot of that work is behind-the-scenes cleanup, but it matters: better stability, less weird legacy mess, fewer insecure old code paths, cleaner admin tools, and a site that is easier to keep building on.

Rasberry™ is also getting closer to soft-launch. This project has turned into an even bigger codebase than LLM Controller, and the new hosting platform behind it is really starting to come together as a proper hardware infrastructure hosting control portal.

So yeah...lots happening. Software, hosting, websites, testing, polishing.

More soon. Probably after some more coffee.