update: final draft for day in the life asiqur

Author: asiqurrahman

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

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 Hi all, 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 at a startup, who also happens to be a college dropout, and also happens to be on a weight loss grind.
 
-### 8:20 - 8:45 AM
+#### 8:20 - 8:45 AM
 
 Starting off the day is at 8:15 AM, waking up. That gives me 30 minutes to be out the door by 8:45 AM to catch the train that leaves at 8:53 AM.
 
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-### 8:55 - 9:45 AM
+#### 8:55 - 9:45 AM
 
 Since I live in Jersey City and our office is in Dumbo Brooklyn, I'll have to make 3 transfers. First is the [Lightrail](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/HBLR_Jersey_City_July_2013.jpg), followed by the [Path](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TRN_PATH_Exchange_Place.jpg) and finally the [A Train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) dropping me off at Dumbo brooklyn.
 
 Where I'll grab a black coffee from [Joe's](https://joecoffeecompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_8426-960x1440.jpg) right before heading into the office. Black coffee, which has less then 5 calores and is great for weight less. More on this later!
 
-### 10:00 - 12:00 AM
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+#### 10:00 - 12:00 AM
 
 Meetings Meetings Meetings 😵‍💫
 
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   A meeting with Naomi our Social media manager on how we can bring more technical content to our social platforms. The ideas brainstormed in this meeting did end up being scrapped due to other big [social plans](https://www.instagram.com/p/DE8GqROvtCF/).
 
-### 12:00 - 2:00 PM
+#### 12:00 - 2:00 PM
 
 The team headed out for lunch while I decided to stay back, mainly because because being en engineer I havent gotten real eng work done yet 💀 due to those meetings. I wanted to use this time to get some smaller items done so I can focus on some bigger projects later on.
 
@@ -60,16 +62,57 @@ One of those smaller items dealt with decreasing the load times of our Challenge
 
 When the team came back, they brought me back a coffee and Yogurt which I estimated to be 300 calories, bringing my calorie intake so far to 305, including the morning coffee.
 
-### 2:00 - 3:00 PM
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+#### 2:00 - 3:00 PM
 
 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 cant 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).
 
-### 3:00 - 7:00 PM
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+#### 3:00 - 7:00 PM
+
+The rest of the day consists of getting some deep work done, removing any blockers for myself or other teammates, shooting some content for our socals and calling it a day around 7 PM.
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+#### 7:00 - 9:30 PM
+
+Heading back home is an hour ride where I just spam Juice World on repeat. By the I'm home it's 8 and I'll spend the next hour and half just decompressing and getting something to eat.
+
+Which was a Yogurt bowl:
+
+- 170g non fat yogurt (90 cals)
+- 1 scope Whey protein (110 cals)
+- 30g of Almonds (200 cals)
+
+Totaling my daily cal intake to 705 calories. Which is all I'll have for the day. A bit more on this below.
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+#### 9:30 - 11:00 PM
+
+GYM TIME 💪🏋️‍♂️
+
+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 cardio, treadmill and stair masters. 45 minutes of the weights. For the weights, I honestly dont know what each of the exercises are called lol. But I try to do 4-6 variantions with the dumb bells and machines.
+
+With this routine and 700 calorie a day restriction, I managed to lose nearly 100 pounds over the course of a year. Obviousely I'm not perfect everyday, 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 calories restirtiction. You can read more about it in this [post](https://www.codedex.io/community/monthly-challenge/submission/lk14Qr20Ze4fzyGeSbpW).
+
+#### 11:00 - 12:30 AM
+
+Heading back home, showering, and doom scrolling Twitter for 20 minutes.
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+#### 12:30 - 3:00 AM
+
+Because this is a startup, the grind truly never ends. For every successful startup you see, there are a hundred others that never made it.
 
-The rest of the day consists of getting some deep work done, getting another coffee at 4:30 PM, shooting some content for our socals and calling it a day around 7 PM.
+And to prevent Codédex from being one of those, it means putting in relentless effort even when it seems unnecessary. Like putting in hours past 12 AM. Whether to get out a feature one day early to the hand of Users or fixing a bug that less then 1% of users will notice. Everything matters.
 
+During these hourse, I'll usually be working on the foundations for the next big project, fixing bugs, or just prepping docs for the next days meetings. It varies from day to day. Usually try to call it around 2 AM, but it ends up being 3 and some days even 5 AM.
 
-### 7:00 - 9:00 PM
+But yeah, thats the day in the life of SWE building a startup office edition. Next one might be at home edition, which I will most likely post in the [OPC](https://www.codedex.io/community), so feel free to follow me their!
 
-Heading back home is a hour ride where I just spam Juice World on repeat. By the time I'm home it's 8:
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