https://devinthakker.com Essays, build logs, and notes on products, engineering, and civic tech. en-us https://devinthakker.com/blog/common-news-ai-summary-trust https://devinthakker.com/blog/common-news-ai-summary-trust How I approach trust at The Common News: source grounding, scoped summarization, human-readable structure, and product decisions designed to make AI-generated civic coverage more reliable. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://devinthakker.com/blog/common-news-local-seo-system https://devinthakker.com/blog/common-news-local-seo-system A breakdown of the SEO system I built for The Common News: canonical summary URLs, structured metadata, entity-driven local relevance, server-rendered civic content, and municipality-level internal linking. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://devinthakker.com/blog/chicago-budget-rag https://devinthakker.com/blog/chicago-budget-rag A practical build log of creating a public-facing RAG app over large municipal budget PDFs, with source citations, embedded document viewing, quality tuning, and production deployment. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://devinthakker.com/blog/why-i-built-the-common-news https://devinthakker.com/blog/why-i-built-the-common-news Why I built The Common News, the problem we saw with local government information delivery, and how we are making civic updates easier to follow. Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT