Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week.

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@phalkmin shares their journey upgrading from a Raspberry Pi home server to a more powerful NASumaki setup, explaining how the limitations of the Pi led to a more capable solution without significantly increasing power consumption.

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@mdchaney explains how dates are actually handled in COBOL in response to recent false information spread across social media and news outlets.

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@ocodista explains how Go 1.24 replaced its Map implementation with Swiss Table.

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@techgirl1908 introduces the concept of AI agents and how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) creates a standardized way for agents to communicate with external systems.

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@anthonymax celebrates a project milestone and thanks all the contributors who supported the project's growth.

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@paradoxy walks us through building a command-line music player in Rust, explaining how they implemented features like playback controls and song management.

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@akshay_gupta recounts how their team built ChatterMind, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) support chatbot, during a 24-hour hackathon, detailing the technical architecture and explaining how they integrated LLMs with WebSockets and ElasticSearch.

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