About this website

This personal website is built using Jekyll, the original Hyde and Hydeout and published to Github Pages. These allow for the generation of a static website using a combination of html, markdown and ruby gems.

More detailed post on the tutorial to build this is here.

More info

Jekyll is a static site generator, an open-source tool for creating simple yet powerful websites of all shapes and sizes. From the project’s readme:

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory […] and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.

Hyde is a Jekyll theme which provides a fully furnished Jekyll setup and is fairly opinionated about website layout, design and tools.

Hyde is a brazen two-column Jekyll theme that pairs a prominent sidebar with uncomplicated content. It’s based on Poole, the Jekyll butler.

Hydeout updates Hyde for Jekyll 3.x and 4.x while adding some new functionality. It’s also the first repo that worked out of the box for me while I was playing around with this.

In keeping with the original Hyde theme, Hydeout aims to keep the overall design lightweight and plugin-free. JavaScript is currently limited only to Disqus and Google Analytics (and is only loaded if you provide configuration variables).