kyleobrien.me

Personal blog and portfolio for Kyle OBrien (Kai). Built with Jekyll and the Hydejack theme.

Live at kyleobrien.me.

Local Development

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Site will be available at http://localhost:4000.

Requirements: Ruby, Bundler (gem install bundler), and a JavaScript runtime (Node.js) for KaTeX math rendering.

Deployment

Pushes to main trigger a GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/jekyll.yml) that builds and deploys to GitHub Pages. PRs to main run a CI check (.github/workflows/ci.yml) that builds the site and runs html-proofer.

Project Structure

_posts/          Blog posts (date-prefixed markdown)
_drafts/         Unpublished drafts
_featured_categories/  Category pages
tags/            Tag index pages
_data/           Author profile, social links, theme strings/variables
_includes/       Custom head/body includes (Hydejack override points)
_sass/           Custom SCSS overrides
assets/          Images, icons, CSS
docs/            Project documentation (reserved)

The Hydejack PRO theme is gem-based (jekyll-theme-hydejack). Layouts and most includes come from the gem; only override files live in this repo.