About

My name is Janne. I was born in 1991 and I’ve been a gamer since I was less than 7 years old. I’ve also been a hobby programmer from around 2005, and a professional one since 2013.

The first online multiplayer game I played was probably RuneScape Classic (2001) – the one that makes Old School RuneScape look like the new RuneScape. Then I was introduced to Counter-Strike 1.5 (2002) and World of Warcraft (2004), which is how I got into programming: I discovered I could make changes to WoW by writing “addons” in a programming language called Lua.

So that’s how I got started, and I never stopped.

Nowadays, I do everything from low level device firmware to distributed backend systems and responsive multi-platform user interfaces (not necessarily using web technologies).

Other facts

I can be funny sometimes. Possibly even intentionally.

Favorite books

• Fiction: Scifi
  • Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan – Also, the first season of the TV series was decent, second one not so much.
  • The Expanse by James S. A. Corey – TV series was good too, shame it ended abruptly.
  • The Martian, Artemis and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Fiction: Thriller
  • The Gray Man by Mark Greaney
  • Jack Reacher by Lee Child
• Fiction: Urban Fantasy
  • Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  • Hellequin Chronicles by Steve McHugh
• Fiction: Fantasy
  • The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
  • Forgotten Realms books, such as
    • The Netheril Trilogy by Clayton Emery
    • The Return of the Archwizards by Troy Denning
    • Shadow’s Witness, The Erevis Cale Trilogy, The Twilight War Trilogy and The Godborn by Paul S. Kemp
    • Legends of Drizzt by R. A. Salvatore
    • Starlight & Shadows by Elaine Cunningham
    • War of the Spider Queen by various authors
    • The Empyrean Odyssey by Thomas M. Reid
  • World of Warcraft books, such as
    • Day of the Dragon and War of the Ancients by Richard A. Knaak
• Software Development
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
• Entrepreneurship
  • The Millionaire Fastlane by M. J. DeMarco
  • Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
  • The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
  • The Right It by Alberto Savoia

Favorite games

• Full Throttle (+ Soundtrack)
• Final Fantasy 7 (+ Soundtrack) – The remake is pretty good too!
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Devil May Cry 1-5 (+ Soundtrack)
• Mass Effect 1-3
• The Witcher 1-3 (+ Soundtrack)
• Divinity Original Sin 1-2
• Baldur’s Gate 3 (+ Soundtrack)
• Cyberpunk 2077 – Got the original game at launch but since it was so buggy I shelved it until the expansion came out and then played the whole thing.
• Overwatch 1
• World of Warcraft – Played since 2004. Guild Master and Raid Leader until end of Mists of Pandaria (2014). I also played the original Classic (multiboxing with 2 accounts – even in raids) until the end of Wrath. These days I just tank M+.

Favorite music

I mostly listen to Melodic Death Metal but I’m comfortable with most other genres as well.

• Drum & Bass / Electronic: Blue Stahli, Cantervice, Celldweller, MDK, Pendulum, Raizer, Soulextract, The Qemists
• Folk Metal: Alestorm, Eluveitie, Equilibrium, Krampus, Whispered, Wind Rose
• Folk Rock: Feuerschwanz, Saltatio Mortis
• Industrial Metal: Entropy Zero, Rave the Reqviem, RTPN
• Melodic Death Metal: 5 Star Grave, Aephanemer, Amaranthe, Arch Enemy, Bloodred Hourglass, Demotional, Disarmonia Mundi, Evil Drive, Eyes Wide Open, Fear of Domination, Horizon Ignited, I Spit Ashes, In Flames, Mors Principium Est, Parasite Inc., Raunchy, Rise to Fall, Silent Line, Sonic Syndicate, The Unguided, Universum, Words of Farewell
• Metalcore: A Feast for Crows, As I May, Crossfaith, Engel, Ego Fall, Electric Callboy
• Modern Metal: Cyhra, Ember Falls, Follow the Cipher
• Nu-Metal: Disturbed, Dope, Peak Inc.
• Power Metal: Ancient Bards, Arion, Crimson Shadows, Dragonforce, Frozen Crown, Masterplan, Machinae Supremacy, Metalite, Temperance, Unleash the Archers
• Rapcore: BackWordz, From Ashes to New
• Trance Metal: Blood Stain Child, Silent Descent
• Trailer Music: Two Steps From Hell

Favorite movies and series

To be added later. But in general, I like action/crime/thriller.

Favorite anime

I used to watch quite a lot, not so much anymore (after 2014 or so). I even learned Japanese so I could watch without subtitles. Haven’t maintained the skill. I can still mostly understand speech but reading is difficult.

• Fate/Zero
• Fate/Stay Night
• Hellsing Ultimate
• Sword Art Online
• Attack on Titan
• Cyberpunk Edgerunners
• Death Note
• Bakuman