The Kaizen Log
Never finished.
Only better than yesterday.
Every improvement we ship, recorded with honest numbers. This is the practice, not the pitch — small deliberate changes, compounding.
10 improvements logged · last updated 13 Aug 2026 · RSS
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Told Google the real smgt.co.za is here
Google was still showing smgt.co.za as a registrar parking page — “Domain Registered, Coming Soon” — weeks after the real site went live. Google had simply not been back since July. Today: Search Console ownership verified, the sitemap submitted and priority indexing requested for the homepage. The stale result’s days are numbered. Also confirmed while […]
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09
Enquiries now land in the studio dashboard
The contact form grew a spine. Pressing the seal used to open your email app; now the enquiry posts straight to the studio dashboard and lands in an inbox that cannot lose it. Under the hood: a REST endpoint with input validation, a honeypot field for bots, rate limiting and an email notification — with […]
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08
kaizen.media now runs on WordPress
This site now runs on WordPress — packaged as a custom theme, pixel for pixel identical to the hand-built original, with every animation and all 100 Lab exhibits intact. Why bother? Deployment and management. WordPress means standard hosting, standard backups, an admin dashboard and a proper content pipeline — this log you are reading is […]
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07
Hero rebuilt as a cinematic canvas sunrise
The homepage hero was rebuilt as a full-viewport canvas piece: a starfield, a tilted orbital ring of particles and a molten core rising over the bottom edge like a sunrise — Good today, better tomorrow, drawn literally. It reacts to the cursor with parallax, sends a shockwave through the ring when clicked and steps aside […]
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06
Six complete demo sites, live inside the Applied page
The Applied page gained a showroom: six complete fictional mini-sites, live inside the page — a freight company, a restaurant, a fintech firm, a school, a fashion label and a music festival. Each one has its own typography, palette and working interactive feature: a freight calculator that actually prices loads, a booking widget, a factoring […]
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05
The Lab hits 100 hand-written experiments
Lab exhibits30→ 100The Lab — this site’s R&D floor — grew from 30 hand-written experiments to 100. Physics toys, generative art, playable games, algorithm visualisers, a working synth, a terminal that talks back. Every exhibit is vanilla JavaScript: no libraries, no plugins, view source if you think we’re bluffing. Each one carries an “under the hood” panel […]
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04
Technical SEO layer shipped for smgt.co.za
SMGT Logistics got its technical SEO layer: LocalBusiness structured data, clean per-page titles and descriptions, canonical URLs, an XML sitemap and social sharing tags. Deliberately left out: published price ranges and opening hours. Quote-based B2B freight has no honest value for either, and invented schema data is worse than none. Search engines now have everything […]
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03
Found the compression leak: HTML now 5x smaller on the wire
Homepage HTML105 KB→ 20 KBCompression was configured, the server said yes, and yet the HTML kept arriving uncompressed. Classic hosting mystery. The cause: on this host PHP runs via FastCGI, which writes its output past the web server’s compression filter. The usual Apache configuration compresses static files only — the HTML itself, the first thing every visitor downloads, was […]