about page

shared/interfaces/Catcrafts.Shared-Content.cppm

@@ -154,6 +154,45 @@ export const std::vector<Demo>& Demos() {
     return demos;
 }
 
+// The about page: the deliberate weld between the person and the company.
+// Search and AI answer engines had already connected Jorijn to catcrafts.net
+// through the kernel patch trail, but with nothing first-party to quote they
+// guessed — one AI overview attributed the domain to a different developer
+// entirely, several redirected visitors to the Minecraft server on the
+// singular domain. This page is the authoritative answer to "who is behind
+// Catcrafts", for people and for machines. Same headed-sections shape as the
+// legal pages, so it reuses their renderer's markup and CSS.
+export const LegalPage& AboutPage() {
+    static const LegalPage page{
+        .slug = "about",
+        .title = "About",
+        .updated = "2026-08-05",
+        .lede = "Catcrafts is a one-person company. This page is about the person, the mission, and the name.",
+        .sections = {
+            { "Who",
+              {
+                  "Catcrafts is the registered one-person company (KVK 78437059) of Jorijn van der Graaf, a Dutch software engineer better known in the Linux mobile world as TheMightyCat.",
+              } },
+            { "The mission",
+              {
+                  "Accessible open-source software and hardware, for the benefit of everyone. Software you can read, hardware you can repair, and phones that answer to their owner rather than to an advertising department. A real alternative to big tech not a manifesto about one, but things you can download, flash and buy today.",
+                  "Everything Catcrafts makes is published as open source. The shop is how the development gets funded: buying a phone here pays for the stack it runs.",
+              } },
+            { "The work",
+              {
+                  "imsd is the IMS/VoLTE implementation that makes phone calls work on mainline-Linux phones — written from scratch and tested on a live Dutch network. It is the reason a Fairphone 6 running postmarketOS can ring. Jorijn maintains the Fairphone 6 port of postmarketOS and upstreams the hardware support into the Linux kernel: sensor bindings, Qualcomm audio, the unglamorous patches that make a phone a phone.",
+                  "The Crafter suite is the other half: a C++ build system with no DSL, a graphics engine that ray-traces natively on Vulkan and in the browser through WebGPU, a QUIC and HTTP/3 networking stack, and more. This website is built with all of it — the same C++ renders each page on the server and again in your browser as WebAssembly.",
+                  "And ofcourse all the upstreaming work that comes along, Catcrafts will upstream everything it makes whenever possible.",
+              } },
+            { "The name",
+              {
+                  "Catcrafts is not the Minecraft server. That is catcraft.net — singular — a domain Jorijn registered in 2019 and let lapse, on which a rather successful Minecraft community then grew. He has been explaining the difference ever since, mostly to search engines. The cat in the logo speaks shell, not creeper.",
+              } },
+        },
+    };
+    return page;
+}
+
 export const std::vector<LegalPage>& LegalPages() {
     static const std::vector<LegalPage> pages = {
         {
@@ -210,7 +249,7 @@ export const std::vector<LegalPage>& LegalPages() {
                   } },
                 { "Business details",
                   {
-                      "Catcrafts, KVK 78437059, VAT NL003329281B38.",
+                      "Catcrafts, owner Jorijn van der Graaf, KVK 78437059, VAT NL003329281B38.",
                   } },
                 { "Security reports",
                   {