Hydejack's cover page on a variety of screens.
Hydejack is your presence on the web. It gives you a blog that is suitable for both prose and technical documentation, a portfolio to showcase your projects, and a beautiful resume template that looks amazing on the web and in print.
Your presence on the web — A blog, a portfolio, and a resume.
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.
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.
document.getElementsByTagName("hy-push-state")[0].addEventListener("hy-push-state-load", function() {
// <your init code>
});They say math is beautiful — and with Hydejack's math support it's also guaranteed to 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.
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.
An incomplete list of features included in all versions of Hydejack:
- Full in-app page loading, powered by hy-push-state
- Customizable sidebar and touch-enabled drawer menu, powered by hy-drawer
- Lazy image loading with cancellation and placeholder, powered by hy-img
- Advanced FLIP animations, inspired by Material Design
- 99/100 Google PageSpeed Score1
- Syntax highlighting, powered by Rouge
- LaTeX math blocks, powered by KaTeX
- Change the wording of built-in strings and possibly translate in other languages
- Support for categories and tags
- Built-in icons for many social networks
- Simple and semantic HTML
- Structured Data for core entities
- Author section below each article and support for multiple authors
- Google Analytics and Google Fonts support
*[FLIP]: First-Last-Invert-Play. A coding technique to achieve performant page transition animations.
Footnotes
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Actual page load speed depends on your hosting provider, resolution of embedded images and usage of 3rd party plugins. ↩