feat: Add conference talk single page layout and GopherCon UK 2026

Makefile

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ serve: # Serve the application
 	npm run serve
 .PHONY: serve
 
+talk: # Scaffold a new conference talk: make talk NAME=my-conf-2026
+	hugo new --kind conference-bundle conferences/$(NAME) --source sites/ainsley-clark
+.PHONY: talk
+
 deploy-prod: # Deploy production to Vercel
 	vercel --prod
 .PHONY: deploy-prod

README.md

@@ -57,6 +57,16 @@ hugo new --kind post-bundle insights/my-post
 hugo new --kind portfolio-bundle portfolio/client-name
 ```
 
+**Create a new conference talk (ainsleyclark.com)**
+
+```shell
+make talk NAME=my-conf-2026
+```
+
+Then add `images/featured.jpg` and `files/slides.pdf` to the bundle, fill in the event metadata and sources, and
+generate a QR code pointing to `https://ainsleyclark.com/conferences/my-conf-2026/`. The page stays in draft (excluded
+from production builds) until `draft: false` is set, typically a day before the talk.
+
 ## Open Source
 
 ainsley.dev permits the use of any HTML, SCSS and Javascript found within the repository for use with external projects.

sites/ainsley-clark/archetypes/conference-bundle/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+title: {{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}
+description: A description of the talk between 120 and 160 characters for search engines and social cards.
+heading: {{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}
+talkTitle: The Actual Title of the Talk
+lead: A short description of the talk that appears on the card and page.
+weight: 1
+publishdate: {{ dateFormat "2006-01-02" .Date }}
+pageColour: white
+draft: true # Flip to false ~a day before the talk to publish.
+tags:
+  - Go
+buttonName: View Talk
+event:
+  name: Conference Name
+  date: {{ dateFormat "2006-01-02" .Date }}
+  location: Venue, City
+  url: https://example.com/
+# video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxx
+slides:
+  path: files/slides.pdf
+  name: {{ .Name }}-ainsley-clark.pdf
+  text: Download slides
+sources:
+  - title: 1. Source Title
+    url: https://example.com/
+    description: A short description of the source.
+---

sites/ainsley-clark/content/conferences/_index.md

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Conference Talks
+build:
+  render: "never"
+  list: "always"
 ---

sites/ainsley-clark/content/conferences/go-guild-feb-2026/index.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 heading: Go Guild - Sept 2024
 lead: Building Open Source Go Projects in Public with MelkeyDev. Learn how popular Go author, Melkey built go-blueprint live on twitch; with a community round up as always.
 weight: 9
+publishdate: 2024-09-01
 tags:
   - Open Source
   - Community

sites/ainsley-clark/content/conferences/gophercon-uk-2025/index.md

@@ -1,14 +1,29 @@
 ---
+title: GopherCon UK 2025 - Deploying Go Microservices in Minutes
+description: How Just Eat uses tooling to deploy Go micro-services in minutes, exploring how Go Kit helps engineers to deploy complex event-driven workflows with ease.
 heading: GopherCon UK 2025
 lead: How Just Eat uses tooling to deploy Go micro-services in minutes. This talk explores how Go Kit helps engineers to deploy complex event-driven workflows with ease.
 weight: 1
+publishdate: 2025-08-14
+pageColour: white
+draft: false
 tags:
   - Go
   - Microservices
   - Platform Engineering
-buttonName: Watch Talk
-externalURL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnjKQZOsvcw
-build:
-  render: "never"
-  list: "always"
+buttonName: View Talk
+event:
+  name: GopherCon UK
+  date: 2025-08-14
+  location: The Brewery, London
+  url: https://www.gophercon.co.uk/
+video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnjKQZOsvcw
+slides:
+  path: files/slides.pdf
+  name: gophercon-uk-2025-ainsley-clark.pdf
+  text: Download slides
+# sources:
+#   - title: Go Kit
+#     url: https://github.com/go-kit/kit
+#     description: The micro-service framework covered in the talk
 ---

sites/ainsley-clark/content/conferences/gophercon-uk-2026/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+---
+title: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AI
+description: How AI tooling is reshaping our sense of accomplishment as engineers, and nine practical ways to reclaim your passion and craft in this new era.
+heading: GopherCon UK 2026
+talkTitle: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AI
+lead: The lines between human and AI labour are becoming increasingly blurred. This talk explores how AI tooling is quietly reshaping our sense of accomplishment as engineers, what the research says about effort, ownership and craft, and nine practical ways to reclaim your passion in this new era.
+weight: 1
+publishdate: 2026-07-21
+pageColour: white
+draft: true # Flip to false ~a day before the talk to publish.
+tags:
+  - AI
+  - Career
+  - Craftsmanship
+buttonName: View Talk
+event:
+  name: GopherCon UK
+  date: 2026-08-13 # TODO: Confirm conference date.
+  location: The Brewery, London
+  url: https://www.gophercon.co.uk/
+slides:
+  path: files/deck.key
+  name: how-to-stay-passionate-in-tech-ainsley-clark.key
+  text: Download slides
+sources:
+  - title: 1. Breaking Engagement Apart
+    url: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/industrial-and-organizational-psychology/article/breaking-engagement-apart-the-role-of-intrinsic-and-extrinsic-motivation-in-engagement-strategies/A277714CC7A3FE3E94DE80F4EEBBC2EF
+    description: The role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in engagement strategies.
+  - title: 2. Self-Determination Theory
+    url: https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/SDT/documents/2000_RyanDeci_SDT.pdf
+    description: Deci & Ryan, 2000.
+  - title: 3. The Measurement of Experienced Burnout
+    url: https://doi.org/10.1002/job.4030020205
+    description: Maslach & Jackson, 1981. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
+  - title: 4. The Scale of AI Fatigue in 2025
+    url: https://clearing-ai.com/stats.html
+    description: A synthesis of data from various sources by Clearing AI.
+  - title: 5. The 73% Collapse
+    url: https://quasa.io/media/the-73-collapse-how-ai-is-erasing-entry-level-tech-jobs-and-rewriting-the-career-ladder
+    description: How AI is erasing entry-level tech jobs and rewriting the career ladder.
+  - title: 6. AI Sucks the Joy Out of Programming
+    url: https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/27/ai-sucks-the-joy-out-of-programming/
+    description: Alexandru Nedelcu.
+  - title: 7. Has Anyone Lost Passion in SWE Due to AI?
+    url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572130
+    description: Hacker News discussion.
+  - title: 8. Canaries in the Coal Mine?
+    url: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/11/CanariesintheCoalMine_Nov25.pdf
+    description: Six facts about the recent employment effects of AI. Stanford Digital Economy Lab, 2025.
+  - title: 9. The State of Psychological Ownership
+    url: https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.7.1.84
+    description: Pierce, Kostova & Dirks, 2003. Review of General Psychology.
+  - title: 10. The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking
+    url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
+    description: Self-reported reductions in cognitive effort from a survey of knowledge workers. Microsoft Research.
+  - title: 11. Expecting to Teach Enhances Learning
+    url: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24845756/
+    description: Nestojko, Bui, Kornell & Bjork, 2014. Memory & Cognition.
+  - title: 12. AI Coding Tools in 2026
+    url: https://tech-insider.org/ai-coding-tools-2026-transforming-software-development/
+    description: How generative code is transforming software development.
+  - title: 13. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025
+    url: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/
+    description: Annual developer survey, including language salary data.
+  - title: 14. KPMG Workplace Friendships Survey
+    url: https://kpmg.com/us/en/media/news/kpmg-survey-workplace-friendships.html
+    description: Workplace friendships play a critical role in employee mental health and job satisfaction.
+---
+
+Passion isn’t found, it’s built — over time, through effort and repetition. From the IKEA effect to diary studies of AI-assisted work, this talk digs into why engineers are reporting a declining sense of craft, and shares nine practical ways to stay connected to the work: prompting with intent, post-processing, setting boundaries, building and finishing things, teaching, finding a niche, staying connected and never stopping learning.

sites/ainsley-clark/content/conferences/just-eat-techfest/index.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 heading: JET Tech Fest
 lead: A career change is daunting. Moving from hospitality into the tech industry was an uphill battle, but it led me to a field I genuinely love. If you’re trying to break into a new industry, this story may resonate.
 weight: 9
+publishdate: 2023-08-01
 tags:
   - Career
   - Soft Skills

sites/ainsley-clark/content/conferences/london-gophers/index.md

@@ -1,14 +1,25 @@
 ---
+title: London Gophers - Deploying Go Microservices
+description: Learn how Just Eat deploys Go microservices with well crafted tooling, making sophisticated event-driven workflows faster to ship and easier to maintain.
 heading: London Gophers
 lead: Learn how Just Eat deploys Go microservices with well crafted tooling. Making sophisticated event-driven workflows faster to ship, easier to maintain & easier to run.
 weight: 2
+publishdate: 2025-02-19
+pageColour: white
+draft: false
 tags:
   - Go
   - Event-Driven
   - Architecture
-buttonName: Watch Talk
-externalURL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jEjlx3S9dEaeggHuj4s1Cd_mAssn9St-/view?usp=sharing
-build:
-  render: "never"
-  list: "always"
+buttonName: View Talk
+event:
+  name: London Gophers
+  date: 2025-02-19
+  location: London
+  url: https://www.meetup.com/londongophers/
+video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jEjlx3S9dEaeggHuj4s1Cd_mAssn9St-/view?usp=sharing
+slides:
+  path: files/slides.pdf
+  name: london-gophers-ainsley-clark.pdf
+  text: Download slides
 ---

sites/ainsley-clark/layouts/conferences/card.html

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 <!-- =====================
     Conferences Card
+    	Links to the conference single page when it renders, falling back
+    	to the external URL for talks that opt out with build.render: never.
     ===================== -->
+{{ $internal := ne .RelPermalink "" }}
 {{ partial "components/featured-card.html" (dict
-	"href"         .Params.externalURL
+	"href"         (cond $internal .RelPermalink .Params.externalURL)
 	"image"        (.Resources.GetMatch "images/featured.*")
 	"imageDefault" (.Resources.GetMatch "images/featured-small.*")
 	"heading"      .Params.heading
@@ -11,5 +14,5 @@
 	"buttonName"   .Params.buttonName
 	"fullWidth"    false
 	"numbers"      false
-	"external"     true
+	"external"     (not $internal)
 )}}

sites/ainsley-clark/layouts/conferences/schema.html

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<!-- =====================
+	Conference Schema (Event)
+	===================== -->
+{{ with .Params.event }}
+	<script type="application/ld+json">
+		{
+			"@context": "https://schema.org",
+			"@type": "Event",
+			"name": {{ $.Params.talkTitle | default $.Params.heading }},
+			"description": {{ $.Params.lead }},
+			{{ with .date -}}
+				"startDate": {{ dateFormat "2006-01-02" . }},
+			{{- end }}
+			{{ with .location -}}
+				"location": {
+					"@type": "Place",
+					"name": {{ . }}
+				},
+			{{- end }}
+			{{ with $.Params.video -}}
+				"recordedIn": {
+					"@type": "VideoObject",
+					"name": {{ $.Params.talkTitle | default $.Params.heading }},
+					"url": {{ . }}
+				},
+			{{- end }}
+			"performer": {
+				"@type": "Person",
+				"name": {{ $.Site.Params.person.name | default $.Site.Params.niceName }},
+				"url": {{ $.Site.Params.url }}
+			}
+		}
+	</script>
+{{ end }}