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A boutique Jekyll theme for hackers, nerds, and academics.
Hydejack's cover page on a variety of screens.
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.
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][docs] | ✔ | ✔ |
[Portfolio] | ✔ | |
Printable [Resume] | ✔ | |
[Dark Mode][dark] | ✔ | |
[Built-In Search][search] | ✔ | |
[Custom Forms][forms] | ✔ | |
[Newsletter Box][news] | ✔ | |
[Grid layout][grid] | ✔ | |
[Offline Support][ofln] | ✔ | |
Table of Contents[^2] | ✔ | |
Cookie Banner | ✔ | |
No Hydejack Branding | ✔ | |
License | [GPL-3.0][lic] | [PRO] |
Source | [GitHub][src] | Included |
Price / Upgrade | Free | $99 / $39 [^3] |
[Download][kit] -- or -- [Deploy to Netlify][nfy] |
[Buy PRO][buy] |
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: `example.js`
document.querySelector("hy-push-state").addEventListener("hy-push-state-load", () => {
const supportsCodeHighlights = true; //!!
});
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.
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.
An incomplete list of features included in all versions of Hydejack:
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][docs] | ✔ | ✔ |
[Portfolio] | ✔ | |
Printable [Resume] | ✔ | |
[Dark Mode][dark] | ✔ | |
[Built-In Search][search] | ✔ | |
[Custom Forms][forms] | ✔ | |
[Newsletter Box][news] | ✔ | |
[Grid layout][grid] | ✔ | |
[Offline Support][ofln] | ✔ | |
Table of Contents[^2] | ✔ | |
Cookie Banner | ✔ | |
No Hydejack Branding | ✔ | |
License | [GPL-3.0][lic] | [PRO] |
Source | [GitHub][src] | Included |
Price / Upgrade | Free | $99 / $39 [^3] |
[Download][kit] -- or -- [Deploy to Netlify][nfy] |
[Buy PRO][buy] |
[^1]: Actual page load speed depends on your hosting provider, resolution of embedded images and usage of 3rd party plugins.
[^2]: Large screens (> 1664px width) only.
[^3]: Upgrading from Hydejack 8? Find your discount code in the latest zip download!
*[FLIP]: First-Last-Invert-Play. A coding technique to achieve performant page transition animations.