Hydejack
A boutique Jekyll theme for hackers, nerds, and academics.
- A Personal Site That Won’t Disappear
- A Free Blogging Theme
- An Impressive Portfolio
- A Printable Resume
- Just Markdown
- Just Markup
- Syntax Highlighting
- Beautiful Math
- Build an Audience
- Features
- Download
- Get It Now
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.
A Personal Site That Won’t Disappear
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.
A Free Blogging Theme
Hydejack started out as a free blogging theme for Jekyll — and continues to be so.

What’s New in Hydejack 9.1?
Version 9.1 provides minor design changes, new features, and closes multiple issues. Continue reading What’s New in Hydejack 9.1?

Introducing Hydejack 9
Version 9 is the most complete version of Hydejack yet. Modernized design, big headlines, and big new features. Continue reading Introducing Hydejack 9

Introducing Dark Mode
The PRO version of Hydejack now includes an optional Dark Mode, making it the first Jekyll theme to include this feature. Continue reading Introducing Dark Mode

Example Content III
A page showing Hydejack-specific markdown content. Continue reading Example Content III
See Posts for more
An Impressive Portfolio
A portfolio that’s guaranteed to be impressive — no matter what you put into it.

Nick Engmann
Nick has a ton of cool stuff on his site. Continue reading Nick Engmann

Shawn Yeager
Shawn created a professional look with just a few tweaks Continue reading Shawn Yeager
See Showcase for more
A Printable Resume
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.
Just Markdown
Write all content with Markdown. Hydejack gives you additional CSS classes to stylize your content, without losing compatibility with other Jekyll themes.
Just Markup
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
.
Syntax Highlighting
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.
Beautiful Math
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.
Build an Audience
The PRO version has built-in support for customizable Tinyletter newsletter subscription boxes.
If you are using a different service like MailChimp, you can build a custom newsletter subscription box using Custom Forms.
Features
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
- Google Analytics and Google Fonts support
- Works with GitHub Pages out of the box2
Download
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:
Free | PRO | |
---|---|---|
Blog | ✔ | ✔ |
Features | ✔ | ✔ |
Documentation | ✔ | ✔ |
Portfolio | ✔ | |
Printable Resume | ✔ | |
Dark Mode | ✔ | |
Built-In Search | ✔ | |
Custom Forms | ✔ | |
Newsletter Box | ✔ | |
Grid layout | ✔ | |
Offline Support | ✔ | |
Table of Contents3 | ✔ | |
Cookie Banner | ✔ | |
No Hydejack Branding | ✔ | |
License | GPL-3.0 | PRO |
Source | GitHub | Included |
Price | Free | |
Download | Buy PRO |
Get It Now
Use the the form below to purchase Hydejack PRO:
Actual page load speed depends on your hosting provider, location, resolution and format of images, usage of 3rd party plugins, and other factors. ↩︎
Some limitations apply, most notably the need to use use MathJax instead of KaTeX for math block rendering. ↩︎
Large screens (> 1664px width) only. ↩︎
Price now permanently reduced by 30%! Use the offer code QR0TW8M to apply this discount later.
If you’re upgrading from Hydejack 8, find your upgrade discount code in the latest zip download. ↩︎