--- title: Best bigboxSWE posts — May 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted bigboxSWE posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe/best-of/2026/05 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe/best-of/2026/05 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best bigboxSWE posts — May 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted bigboxSWE posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of bigboxSWE — May 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-programming-skill-that-will-define-this-era-g6s66at3i "The programming skill that will define this era") Video bigboxSWE · 18w The programming skill that will define this era Systems thinking is argued to be the defining programming skill of the current era, more valuable than any specific language or framework. The post draws on job market data showing high demand for roles like ML engineers, data engineers, and backend engineers — all of which require building and reasoning about complex systems. Unconventional ways to develop this skill are suggested, including playing Factorio, studying Cloudflare outage postmortems, and reading Donella Meadows' 'Thinking in Systems'. More conventional approaches like stress-testing projects with large public datasets are also mentioned. The post is sponsored by Convex, a TypeScript-based backend platform. 179 2 [See all bigboxSWE archives](/sources/bigboxswe/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe/best-of/2026/05#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe/best-of/2026/05","name":"Best bigboxSWE Posts — May 2026","description":"The most upvoted bigboxSWE posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe/best-of/2026/05#items","numberOfItems":1,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-programming-skill-that-will-define-this-era-g6s66at3i","name":"The programming skill that will define this era"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"bigboxSWE","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"May 2026"}]}]} ```