Mike Kuykendall

Mike Kuykendall

Software engineer for over twenty years.

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Former 9/11 era Staff Sergeant in the United States Air Force. A loving father of two, and a devoted husband and a software engineer for over twenty years.

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Mike Kuykendall

12d ago

Shimmy v2.0 - The first pure-Rust GGUF inference engine. No C. No Python.

Two 5,200-token runs. Same model. SHA-identical byte output. That's a proof, not a benchmark. Shimmy v2.0 ships Airframe: pure-Rust GPU inference with hand-written WGSL compute shaders. No llama.cpp. No C. No Python. No CUDA. First production GGUF engine Rust all the way down — including the GPU shaders. Run TinyLlama, Llama 3.2, Phi, DeepSeek from GGUF. Drop-in for AnythingLLM, Open WebUI, Cursor, Zed via OpenAI or Ollama API. Windows, macOS, Linux. cargo install shimmy

Why Running a BSC Node is a Money Pit - Offline Alternatives

In the fast-paced world of blockchain development, access to reliable data is everything. Whether you re building DeFi apps, running quant strategies, or analyzing market trends on BNB Smart Chain (BSC), you need historical events, transactions, and states at your fingertips. But if you ve ever tried spinning up your own BSC node, especially an archive node, you know it s not as straightforward as the docs make it sound. What starts as a simple setup can quickly spiral into a black hole of costs, time, and frustration.

As someone who s been in the trenches of blockchain data, I ve seen teams burn through budgets just to keep their nodes humming. In this post, I ll break down why running a BSC node often feels like a money pit and explore smarter, offline alternatives that can save you thousands without sacrificing access. Let s dive in.

The Allure of Running Your Own Node

First, why do people even bother? BSC, Binance s Ethereum-compatible chain, powers massive DeFi ecosystems like PancakeSwap, Venus, and countless DEXs. A full node lets you validate transactions in real-time. An archive node stores every historical state, which is essential for querying old balances, event logs, or backtesting strategies.

Mike Kuykendall

3mo ago

∂₀ Delta Zero Labs BNB Chain Dataset - BNB Chain datasets you can own and query locally.

BNB Smart Chain datasets for serious analytics teams. Get a free teaser plus paid packs for governance, bridges, oracle and WBNB flows, lending, and complete coverage. One-time purchase, local querying, no RPC bottlenecks, no monthly data tax. DEX pack is processing now.
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