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, 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. A bit more about me and what I (want to) do can be found here.

I can be contacted on bert@hubertnet.nl or via Twitter @bert_hu_bert.

Note: All recent publications/posts can be found here, or through RSS.

My (live) data projects:

• Galmon.eu: GPS/Galileo/GNSS monitoring project. Live dashboard: galmon.eu.
• Gazmon, live plots of just HOW much Russia gas Europe is buying
• 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:

• 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, Old blog, GitHub 1, GitHub 2, Google Scholar, ORCiD.

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