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Author: asiqurrahman

blogs/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-swe-at-a-startup.mdx

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   - Community
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-An unfortunate aspect of the internet is that most of it is **glamorized**. Rarely showing the **reality** of what's going on behind the scenes. Nothing depicts this better than those "Day In the Life" videos of a software engineers.
+An unfortunate aspect of the internet is that most of it is **glamorized**. Rarely showing the **reality** of what's going on behind the scenes. Nothing depicts this better than those "Day In the Life" videos of a software engineer.
 
 I'm Asiqur Rahman, a Software Engineer at Codédex, and today I'll be showing you a real day in the life of a software engineer building a startup, who also happens to be a college dropout, and is also on a weight loss grind.
 
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 One of those smaller items dealt with decreasing the load times of our Challenge Packs. Sometimes they would take 5 seconds to load, which was really bad UX. So some refactoring was done, and the speed was drastically improved. Below is the before and after.
 
 <div style={{ display: "flex", gap: ".5rem" }}>
-  <a href="https://codedex-git-feature-user-dashboard-codedex.vercel.app/challenges">
+  <a
+    href="https://codedex-git-feature-user-dashboard-codedex.vercel.app/challenges"
+    target="_blank"
+  >
     <Button variant="subtle">Before</Button>
   </a>
-  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/challenges">
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/challenges" target="_blank">
     <Button>After</Button>
   </a>
 </div>
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 #### 2:00 - 3:00 PM
 
 The final meeting of the day was a product meeting. Discussing our roadmap for Q1 2025, what to prioritize, when to ship, etc.
+
 Some of those items included the dedicated [Worlds](https://www.codedex.io/worlds) page, new Notification system, revamped [Community](https://www.codedex.io/community), and other things that I can't talk about just yet. You can see everything that we shipped for January in the [changelog](https://www.codedex.io/blog/codedex-update-january-2025).
 
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 #### 7:00 - 9:30 PM
 
-Heading back home is an hour ride where I just spam Juice WRLD on repeat. By the time I'm home, it's 8 PM, and I'll spend the next hour and a half just decompressing and getting something to eat.
+Heading back home is an hour ride where I just spam Juice WRLD on repeat. By the time I'm home, it's 8 PM, and I'll spend the next hour and a half decompressing and getting something to eat.
 
 Which was a yogurt bowl:
 
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 Because I'm on a weight loss journey, I try to exercise 4-5 times a week for at least 90 minutes. Which I split into two sections. 45 minutes of cardio, treadmill, and stair masters. 45 minutes of weights. For the weights, I honestly don't know what each of the exercises is called lol. But I try to do 4-6 variations with the dumbbells and machines.
 
-With this routine and a 700 calorie a day restriction, I managed to lose nearly 100 pounds over the course of a year. Obviously, I'm not perfect every day, but I try to stick to it and make up for it the next day if I miss a gym session or go over my calorie restriction. You can read more about it in this [post](https://www.codedex.io/community/monthly-challenge/submission/lk14Qr20Ze4fzyGeSbpW).
+With this routine and 700 calorie a day restriction, I managed to lose nearly 100 pounds over the course of a year. Obviously, I'm not perfect every day, but I try to stick to it and make up for it the next day if I miss a gym session or go over my calorie restriction. You can read more about it in this [post](https://www.codedex.io/community/monthly-challenge/submission/lk14Qr20Ze4fzyGeSbpW).
 
 #### 11:00 - 12:30 AM
 
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 But yeah, that's the day in the life of an SWE building a startup, office edition. The next one might be the a -home edition, which I will most likely post in the [OPC](https://www.codedex.io/community), so feel free to follow me there!
 
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