- PowerDNS transitioned to professional management under Open-Xchange in 2018, achieving financial stability and staffing success.
- Bert Hubert advocates for an open internet, highlighting email centralization issues where large providers like Microsoft and Google drop emails from smaller servers.
- He raised concerns about DNS centralization by browser makers like Google and Mozilla, and worked to make decentralized DNS technology accessible.
- Hubert created resources like 'The DNS Camel Viewer', 'Hello-DNS', and 'tdns' to simplify DNS understanding and implementation.
- He wrote a six-part introduction to Modern C++ for C Programmers, attracting over 100,000 views, and defended C++ against dominance by Go and Rust.
- He organized a Mars landing live blog for school children, creating custom software called powerblog.
- He improved documentation and created safe wrappers for LMDB and H2O libraries, enhancing usability.
- PowerDNS introduced Lua records for geographic load balancing and an LMDB backend for scalable replication.
- Hubert attempted an IP encryption project (ipcipher) for GDPR compliance but faced technical and patent challenges.
- Notable blog posts covered DNS spoofing with fragments, Meltdown/Spectre, and recruitment strategies.
- He developed small tools for efficient internet scanning, email flow analysis, and thread-safe counters in C++.
- His 2019 plans focus on continuing to create open-standard communication technology.