Shuaib Evans

Hey X! I’m @silencoder62 —web dev, IT guy, team leader. Daily tips on coding & remote work start now. Let’s grow!

I am a senior vice president at a $68.7 billion gaming company. Activision-Blizzard. We have a 30-year-old franchise. Warcraft. Millions of players. A subscription model that prints $15 a month per user. A cash shop on top of the subscription. Paid expansions on top of the cash shop. Our former creative director just told the press he wishes we hadn't called it "Warcraft." He said the name sounds intimidating. He helped create the name. We ran focus groups. The focus groups said the brand needed to be "more approachable." We asked the focus groups if they played the game. They did not. We took their advice anyway. Our VP told an interviewer we want players to experience "weddings, raids, and new adventures." She listed weddings first. Before raids. In a game called Warcraft. Nobody in the room flinched. She also said "No one thinks the same about Warhammer." She compared our franchise unfavorably to a competitor. On the record. As a defense of the franchise. The forums are on fire. Twenty-year veterans are writing goodbye posts. One thread is titled "Think I'm done with WoW." Another calls our pre-patch a "player purge." We called our GDKP raiders "delusional." We timed a cash shop bundle to launch during the Trading Post anniversary -- the one event where players earn free cosmetics. We offered 200 discounted items but kept the monthly currency cap at 1,000. The math doesn't work unless you open your wallet. The community noticed. We described their concerns as "feedback we're monitoring." We are always monitoring. We have never once changed course because of monitoring. The players say we're "Disneyfying" the game. Turning gritty into cute. War into weddings. Orcs into mascots. They're not wrong. The data says approachable properties have wider TAM. Total addressable market. That's the metric now. Not "subscribers who love the game." Not "community that built this franchise." TAM. TAM doesn't post on forums. TAM doesn't write goodbye letters. TAM doesn't have 20 years of muscle memory and lore knowledge and raid nights that turned into real friendships. TAM is a number in a slide deck that makes a board feel comfortable. We added player housing. Players have asked for it since 2004. We launched it in 2026. Twenty-two years. We described this as "listening to our community." We are very good at listening. Eventually. When the feature aligns with a monetization roadmap. Here is what I know and cannot say in a meeting: The name was never the problem. The name built this. The name survived server crashes and subscription drops and an activision merger and a harassment scandal and a $68.7 billion acquisition. The name is "Warcraft" and for 30 years nobody was confused about what it meant. The problem is not that new players find the name intimidating. The problem is that old players are starting to find us unrecognizable. And we don't have a focus group for that.

@clemmygames Soul reaver

Which video game is this?

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You can cut & paste your entire source code file into the query entry box on grok.com and @Grok 4 will fix it for you! This is what everyone @xAI does. Works better than Cursor.

@TateTheTalisman To be honest here Tristan you and the rest of the world are being fed a false narrative. I'm a South African that has grown up in a extremely diverse area and lived in various neighborhoods. Including farm areas, this notion that whites are being targeted is a boogeyman strategy

How dare white farmers in SA grow the food and feed the country. Perhaps we should murder them and their pets/families? - SA logic.

“SA businesses! Website crashing or slow? I’ll fix it in 24 hours DM me! #WebDev #SouthAfrica

For web developers: Use the Intersection Observer API to lazy-load images only when they enter the viewport. It reduces initial page load time significantly. What techniques do you use for performance? @silencoder62 #WebDev

@WillisEllis8 Your commitment to this project is astonishing. keep it up!

For day 814 of coding; I have the detection showing in the right grid placement now, but it now appears that the center mark isn't centered #gamedev #gamedeveloper #Gamedevelopment #gamedesign #coding #dailycoding #dailycodingchallenge #dailycodinghabit #GMS2 #gamemakerstudio2

@IzzysPEpRena connected! :)

I build websites with hmtl and css Help a brother pls 🙏 U follow I follow back immediately

Remote work tip: Set Slack to ‘away’ when you’re deep in code—stops random pings. Keeps you focused. How do you dodge distractions? @silencoder62 #RemoteWork

Web dev tip: Use localStorage to cache small data faster than fetching every load. Saves time on quick apps. What’s your speed trick? @silencoder62 #WebDev

Remote work tip: Use a noise-canceling app like Krisp to kill background chaos on calls. Keeps you sharp when the dog’s barking. How do you stay focused? @silencoder62 #RemoteWork #WebDev

@trikcode Let us connect!

Web dev tip: Use ‘defer’ on script tags to load JS after HTML. Stops render blocks and speeds up your page. What’s your go-to fix? @silencoder62 #WebDev #Coding #programming

@stephanyoguocha 'works over perfect' is my whole deal haha, still it looks great and client tweaks are always chaos right? @silencoder62

@BoujidStack Yo @BoujidStack, TodoMe getting love on Reddit’s sick. You adding anything wild to it? @silencoder62 #WebDev

Shared my Todo List app on Reddit… and got engagement!🚀 I built TodoMe for myself, never planned to launch. But with interest, I might add features & launch soon! Also focusing on Reddit now, let’s see how it goes!😁 ➡️Try it: todome-theta.vercel.app #BuildInPublic #WebDev

@Rohandede18 Damn @Rohandede18, hospital software live and paid, huge W. How’d you land that gig? @silencoder62 #WebDev

🚀 Live Now! Built & deployed a hospital software 🏥 using MERN Stack. Successfully delivered & got paid! 💰 💻 7+ hours coding & solved a LeetCode problem! 🔗 Live Site: aniket-hospital.vercel.app #MERN #ReactJS #Freelance #100DaysOfCode #WebDev 🚀

@tymek_dev Yo, @tymek_dev really nice looking portfolio, quite sleek, use any tailwind? Mine is still coming together and going through various iterations lol @silencoder62

Finally put together my portfolio 🎉 Sharing some projects I’ve coded and designed—many more coming soon. Any feedback is welcome 🥸 🔗 tinyurl.com/tymekdev #WebDev #Programming

@amrit_xrajput Yo @amrit_xrajput, resume with a download’s clutch, portfolio’s coming together nice. still in the process of building mine. What’s next for your site? @silencoder62 #WebDev

Day 11 of Web Development! 🚀 Made great progress today — created my resume and added it to my portfolio website with a download button. Also designed two new pages: About and Contact, including a form. Step by step, getting closer to completion! 💻✨ #WebDev

@neerajnath155 Hey @neerajnath155, Share Modal’s slick, love a good demo. I just wrestled JS into a Snake game in a day, crashed a ton before it worked. What’s your next build? @silencoder62 #WebDev

Day-9 #100DaysOfCode 📍 Just built a Share Modal project Using Html Css and Javascript🧑‍💻🌟 I got my hands dirty revised my skills and recorded a quick demo video to walk you through it 📍 Super excited to share this with you all🌟 Feedback is always welcome 🧑‍💻📍 #webdev