About

Taylor C Jensen is a NYC-based lighting programmer and technician with experience in theater on and off Broadway, internationally, and regionally, as well as in live events and television. He employs a methodical and clean approach to programming, ensuring that each production is maintainable through its entire life.

In addition to programming ETC Eos consoles, Taylor takes pride in configuring complex data distribution and show control systems. He takes extra care to consider redundancy and failure conditions to ensure uninterrupted performance.

When he’s not working, he enjoys playing tabletop games, backpacking, and indulging in his love for science fiction and fantasy. Taylor is most passionate about the intersection of art and technology that is live entertainment.

Hydejack Permalink

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

Hydejack
A Personal Site That Won’t Disappear
Download
A Free Blogging Theme
An Impressive Portfolio
A Printable Resume
Just Markdown
Just Markup
Syntax Highlighting
Beautiful Math
Build an Audience
Features
Comparison
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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 Permalink

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.

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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 Contents¹		✔
Cookie Banner		✔
No Hydejack Branding		✔
License	GPL-3.0	PRO
Source	GitHub	Included
Price	Free	~~$99~~ $69 One-Time Payment ²
	Download	Buy PRO

A Free Blogging Theme Permalink

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

An Impressive Portfolio Permalink

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

A Printable Resume Permalink

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 Permalink

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

Just Markup Permalink

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:

w3m Screenshot

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

Syntax Highlighting Permalink

Hydejack features syntax highlighting, powered by Rouge.

 _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 Permalink

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 Permalink

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 Permalink

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 fist 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 Score³
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 box⁴

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