Hydejack

A boutique Jekyll theme for hackers, nerds, and academics.

Hydejack's cover page on a variety of screen sizes.

Hydejack is a boutique Jekyll theme for hackers, nerds, and academics, with a focus on personal sites that are meant to impress.

It includes a blog that is suitable for both prose and technical documentation, a portfolio to showcase your projects, and a resume template that looks amazing on the web and in print.

Your complete presence on the web — A blog, portfolio, and resume.

Hydejack is 100% built on Open Source software, and is Open Source itself, save for parts of the PRO version. The PRO version is a one-time payment that gives you the right to use it forever.

Hydejack is all static sites. HTML. All you need is a web server — any web server — to have a professional web presence that lasts a lifetime.

Hydejack started out as a free blogging theme for Jekyll — and continues to be so.

A portfolio that's guaranteed to be impressive — no matter what you put into it.

Get a resume that's consistent across the board — whether it's on the web, mobile, print, or PDF.

Front and center page of a print resume generated by Hydejack.

Write all content with Markdown. Hydejack gives you additional CSS classes to stylize your content, without losing compatibility with other Jekyll themes.

Hydejack boasts a plethora of modern JavaScript, but make no mistake: It's still a plain old web page at its core. It works without JavaScript and you can even view it in a text-based browser like w3m:

The Hydejack blog, as seen by the text browser `w3m`.

Hydejack features syntax highlighting, powered by Rouge.

<!-- file: `_includes/my-body.html` -->
<script type="module">
  document.querySelector("hy-push-state").addEventListener("hy-push-state-load", () => {
    const supportsCodeHighlights = false; // TBD!!
  });
</script>

Code blocks can have a filename and a caption.

They say math is beautiful — and with Hydejack's math support it's guaranteed to also look beautiful:

Hydejack uses KaTeX to efficiently render math.

An incomplete list of features included in all versions of Hydejack:

• Responsive layout with unique design features for every screen size
• Cover Pages for a stunning first impression.
• Customizable sidebar and touch-enabled drawer menu
• Single Page Web App-style page loading
• Advanced FLIP animations, inspired by Material Design
• Good Google PageSpeed Score¹
• Syntax highlighting, powered by Rouge
• LaTeX math blocks, rendered with ether KaTeX or MathJax at your choice
• Soft-coded labels: Change wording or translate to other languages via a single file
• Support for categories and tags
• Author section below each article and support for multiple authors
• Built-in icons for many social networks
• Simple and semantic HTML + Structured Data
• Works with GitHub Pages out of the box²

*[FLIP]: First-Last-Invert-Play. A coding technique to achieve performant page transition animations.

There are two versions of Hydejack: The Free Version includes basic blogging functionality and most of Hydejack's Features, such as dynamic page loading and advanced animations.

The PRO Version includes additional features for professionals, such as a portfolio, resume, Dark Mode, Forms, Built-In Search and customizable cookie banners.

The table below shows what's included in each version: