Intro

Hi! I'm bert hubert, and I am an entrepreneur & software developer. I sometimes contribute to science, I care a lot about Europe 🇪🇺, innovation, climate, biology & health. I'm a former shareholder of Open-Xchange, the parent company of PowerDNS which I founded in 1999. In 2020, I joined a government oversight board, which I have since left. These days I am a part-time technical advisor at the Dutch Electoral Council. A bit more about me and what I (want to) do can be found here.

I can be contacted via email on bert@hubertnet.nl or on Mastodon: @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org.

My (live) data projects:

• bagconv: software to make the official Dutch building & addresses database far more accessible, including ready to use CSV files and an online service.
• Galmon.eu: GPS/Galileo/GNSS monitoring project. Live dashboard: galmon.eu.
• Nlelec, live plots of Dutch (renewable) electricity consumption & imports & exports.
• SkewDB: an open database of GC and other microbial skews (Video from presentation at the Scientific Spring Meeting KNVM / NVMM 2022).

Some notable projects, publications & presentations:

• Hello Deep Learning, a from-scratch introduction to deep learning, that builds a program that learns how to read handwritten letters.
• Googerteller/Tracker Beeper. Media: Radio 1 Belgium, RTL Nieuws, 9To5Google.
• MCH2022 presentations "Hacking the genome: how does it work, and should we be?" and "How do GPS/Galileo really work & how the galmon.eu project monitors all navigation satellites" (NEW!)
• Podcast Stuurloos, Waarom je nerdfluisteraars nodig hebt bij de overheid, Kustaw Bessems / Volkskrant.
• Er zijn te weinig nerdfluisteraars bij bedrijven en overheden, vindt ict-expert Bert Hubert, Kustaw Bessems / Volkskrant.
• Hackparadijs Nederland, De Balie. Met Sanne Maasakkers, Michiel Steltman en Lokke Moerel.
• The Technology of Life, a book I am writing!
• SkewDB, a comprehensive database of GC and 10 other skews for over 30,000 chromosomes and plasmids, Nature Scientific Data, 2022
• A fun podcast with SPRIND, Germany's Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, also covering some of my background.
• Hoe kwetsbaar Europa is, leer je van een broodrooster, artikel in De Correspondent over technische kennis en outsourcing.
• Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
• RFC 5452: Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged Answers
• 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
• GPS, Galileo & More: How do they work & what happened during the big outage?
• Modern C++ for C Programmers: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
• Hello DNS: an introduction to DNS, including reference implementations
• Spectre & Meltdown: tapping into a CPU's subconscious thoughts
• DNA: The code of life (Blog, with links to two hours of video)
• '(Don’t) drop the hint: communicating with technical people'
• Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS
• How about some actual innovation: Inventing the transistor and landing a nuclear robot on Mars
• Interview at Startup Grind Rotterdam, on business, startups and innovation (with video)
• 'Escaping the data center - tales from a recovering manager', NLNOG Day 2015. Video, slides

Note: All recent publications/posts can be found here.

You can find more in the sections on linked from the top of this page.

Possibly relevant: Linkedin, Main Twitter, Dutch Twitter, DNA Twitter, Mastodon, Dutch Mastodon, Old blog, GitHub 1, GitHub 2, Google Scholar, ORCiD.

Some older links can only be found on the old version of this page.