Hydejack

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

1. A Personal Site That Won’t Disappear
2. A Free Blogging Theme
3. An Impressive Portfolio
4. A Printable Resume
5. Just Markdown
6. Just Markup
7. Syntax Highlighting
8. Beautiful Math
9. Build an Audience
10. Features
11. Download
12. 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: $$\begin{aligned} \phi(x,y) &= \phi \left(\sum_{i=1}^n x_ie_i, \sum_{j=1}^n y_je_j \right) \\[2em] &= \sum_{i=1}^n \sum_{j=1}^n x_i y_j \phi(e_i, e_j) \\[2em] &= (x_1, \ldots, x_n) \left(\begin{array}{ccc} \phi(e_1, e_1) & \cdots & \phi(e_1, e_n) \\ \vdots & \ddots & \vdots \\ \phi(e_n, e_1) & \cdots & \phi(e_n, e_n) \end{array}\right) \left(\begin{array}{c} y_1 \\ \vdots \\ y_n \end{array}\right) \end{aligned}$$

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:

Get It Now

Use the the form below to purchase Hydejack PRO: