Geoff Mclane
Owner at GeoffAir
Antony, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarGeoff Mclane is an entrepreneurial software engineer and owner with 17 years of experience delivering reliable backend solutions from Antony, Ile-de-France. He combines small-business leadership with deep hands-on C/C++ maintenance work, notably contributing to the long-running htacg/tidy-html5 project where he improved HTML5 handling, character encoding, and build/release tooling. Comfortable across maintenance, bug-fixing and tooling, he focuses on code quality, compatibility and pragmatic enhancements like script-escaping and tab handling options. Geoff’s profile suggests a preference for durable, standards-aligned engineering over flashier trends, and an ability to shepherd legacy codebases into modern usage. He brings a quietly persistent approach to open-source collaboration and product ownership, blending operational responsibility with technical craftsmanship.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
html10
c1710
character-encoding10
c1110
build-automation10
cprogramming-language9
debug9
c-language9
cmake9
debugging9
git8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
htacg/tidy-html5
Jan 2012 - Apr 2021
The granddaddy of HTML tools, with support for modern standards
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 675 commits, 182 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Geoff primarily worked on improving and maintaining the HTML Tidy project, focusing on code quality, functionality, and compatibility. Their contributions include bug fixes related to handling HTML5, character encodings, and anchor elements, as well as the addition of options such as `escape-scripts` and `keep-tabs`. The user also contributed to the build system, modifying batch files for build and release processes, and added some Doxygen code for future API docs.
javascriptstandards
geoffmcl/NppTidy2
Jun 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 68 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 9 months
html-tidytidyhtml5notepad
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