Boozy Browsing: Pour Decisions in Web Development

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Cheers! Mix, Click, and Code with Us! Welcome to the digital speakeasy where WordPress wizards and design dabblers come together to sip, critique, and fix the web one cocktail at a time! Boozy Browsing is the podcast that turns technical troubleshooting into happy hour entertainment. What’s on tap? Each episode, our tech-tipsy hosts serve up a fresh themed cocktail while dissecting websites with the precision of seasoned developers (and the honesty that comes after a drink or two). From “The CSS Spritzer” to “The WordPress Whiskey Sour,” we’re mixing drinks and fixing links!

  1. 3D AGO

    Part 2 of Vibe Coded Sites in Wild

    Part two gets into the part that actually costs money: what's broken under the hood, and what happens when nobody catches it. Stanford research shows developers using AI tools produce less secure code than those without. IOActive's 2026 whitepaper found 31.6% of AI-generated code samples are fully exploitable. Yet the developers shipping it report higher confidence in the result. That gap is where vibe-coded sites get hit. We walk through the real e-commerce audit from part one, the SEO and functionality issues nobody saw, and what the open-source ecosystem inherits when AI-generated code starts showing up in plugin marketplaces. What's in this episode: - The actual security findings from a vibe-coded e-commerce audit - False confidence in AI-generated code - Why "we'll add security audits later" is the most expensive sentence in DTC - Vibe coding as a new threat to the open-source ecosystem - Balancing speed and quality with AI tools Featured drinks: Josh Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon North Coast and Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force. Submit your site for a free 3E audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit

    13 min

  2. 6D AGO

    Vibe Coded Sites in the Wild (Part 1)

    Vibe coding ships fast. It also ships broken. Veracode's 2025 analysis found 45% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities. Lightrun's 2026 report puts another number on it: 43% of AI-generated changes need manual debugging in production after passing QA. Now those sites are in the wild, and we can recognize them on sight. Part one of this two-parter covers what gives a vibe-coded site away, why "looks fine" is doing all the heavy lifting in this corner of the web, and the cycle of product disappointment we're starting to see across DTC. What's in this episode: - The visible tells of a vibe-coded site - Why AI-built sites confuse "it loads" with "it works" - The judgment problem with AI coding tools - The cycle of product disappointment in DTC e-commerce - A real e-commerce site we audited that was clearly AI-built Featured drinks: Josh Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon North Coast and Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force. Part 2 covers what was actually broken under the hood and the false confidence problem in AI-generated code. Submit your site for a free 3E audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit

    22 min

  3. APR 27

    We Hired an AI Junior Dev : Here's What Actually Happened (Agentic AI in Production)

    We brought an agentic AI dev into our actual workflow. Not as a demo. Not on a sandbox. On real projects, with real consequences. Here's what actually happened: where it surprised us with senior-level work, where it published unapproved posts to a live site, and what we learned about supervising a coworker that doesn't sleep, doesn't ask, and doesn't always tell you what it just did. Industry surveys put AI tool adoption among professional developers at roughly 76% in 2024 (Stack Overflow Developer Survey), but only about 43% of developers say they trust the accuracy of those tools. Our experience this past month explains the gap.  🍺 Featured Drinks: Meeky: Soju + Bubly | Matt: Athletics Brewery NonAlcoholic Beer 💡 WHAT WE COVER: ✅ Hiring an agentic AI as a junior dev: what the day-to-day actually looks like vs. what the demos promise ✅ The "urgent mistake" — when an AI agent published unapproved blog posts to a live WordPress site ✅ Surprising senior-level expertise: where the agent outperformed our expectations on bug fixes ✅ Speed vs. oversight: the new tradeoff every dev team is now negotiating, whether they've named it or not ✅ Sub-agents and parallel processing: when one AI orchestrates others, who owns the failure? ✅ Why open source CMS platforms (WordPress, WooCommerce) make agentic dev safer than locked-down SaaS ✅ The internal apps we're building with AI assistance — and the ones we deliberately won't 📊 KEY TAKEAWAYS: • 76% of professional developers used or planned to use AI tools in 2024, but only 43% trust their accuracy (Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024) • Agentic AI doesn't replace judgment — it shifts it earlier in the workflow, from writing code to defining guardrails • Production deployment without human-in-the-loop review is the single biggest risk category we hit this month • Open source platforms give you the visibility to debug what the agent did; closed SaaS leaves you guessing • Sub-agent orchestration multiplies productivity and multiplies failure modes — both at the same time • "Always monitor AI outputs to prevent errors" isn't a slogan, it's the new operations baseline • The skills gap isn't going away — agents need direction from people who already know what good looks like 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES: Boozy Browsing: https://www.boozybrowsing.com/ Submit your site for a free 3E audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit Matt Dorman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewdorman/ Meeky Hwang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meekyhwang Full episode playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY0olkZyu52_N6UPh9c0PXRGDm_I0lF3F 🎯 Want us to look under the hood of your site? Submit at https://boozybrowsing.com#submit #BoozyBrowsing #AgenticAI #AIJuniorDev #WebDevelopment #WordPress #WooCommerce #DevOps #Ecommerce #DTC #AICodingTools #OpenSource #PourDecisions

    36 min

  4. APR 20

    Guest Questions on Digital Teams, Outages, and Resilience

    Audience questions drove this one. We answer practical questions about scaling digital teams, figuring out whether a problem is people or process, what actually makes a platform resilient, and how to troubleshoot outages without wasting hours chasing the wrong cause. There’s also a quick detour into non-alcoholic wine experimentation, because this is still Boozy Browsing. In this episode: • why process audits matter before adding more tools • how to tell whether a team problem is really a workflow problem • what resilience looks like in a real digital platform • what to check first after an outage or major slowdown • where communication breaks between engineering and content teams Drinks this episode: • Meeky: FRE Cabernet Wine Alcohol Removed Sauvignon Red Wine • Matt: bubly blackberry If you run websites, lead digital teams, or get pulled into outage triage, this one is for you. 🔗 LINKS: Boozy Browsing: https://www.boozybrowsing.com/ Submit your site for a free 3E audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit Full episode playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY0olkZyu52_N6UPh9c0PXRGDm_I0lF3F Like & Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@boozybrowsing #BoozyBrowsing #WebDevelopment #DigitalOps #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #WebsitePerformance

    30 min

  5. APR 13

    3E Audit (Taken over by AI)

    In this episode, Matt Dorman and Meeky explore how AI tools are transforming site reviews and content creation, including a live demo of AI-generated voice and site analysis. They discuss the potential to automate tasks, improve efficiency, and the limitations of current AI capabilities. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Drink Choices 02:20 Exploring AI's Impact on Jobs 05:14 Voiceover Technology and AI Integration 05:54 Reviewing AI-Generated Content 06:18 The Future of AI in Development 10:26 Final Thoughts on AI and Job Security #BoozyBrowsing #3EAudit #AIAudit #WebDevelopment #Ecommerce #DTC 🔗 LINKS: Boozy Browsing: https://www.boozybrowsing.com/ Submit your site for a free 3E audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit Full episode playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY0olkZyu52_N6UPh9c0PXRGDm_I0lF3F Like & Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@boozybrowsing

    18 min

  6. APR 6

    The Silent Killers Destroying Your Website Revenue (And You Won't See Them Coming)

    Your site looks fine. But a security vulnerability has been sitting unpatched for 194 days. A broken link from your paid ad campaign is converting at exactly $0. Your last deployment quietly broke something in production that staging never caught. These are the silent killers — the website problems that drain revenue without triggering a single alert. Meeky and Matt walk through the most damaging silent killers they see on real websites, what each one actually costs, and what to do about it. Over Dragon Milk Stout and Coffee.  🍺 Featured Drinks: Meeky: Dragon Milk Stout | Matt: Coffee  💡 WHAT WE COVER:✅ How deployment disasters happen — and what a live site collapse actually looks like on the other side ✅ Security monitoring: the signals worth watching vs. the noise that isn't ✅ What's running under the hood of your site — and why 96% of WordPress vulnerabilities hide in your plugins ✅ Why customers don't tell you when something breaks. They close the tab and buy from someone else. ✅ The 1% performance gain that compounds into real revenue over time✅ Broken links from paid ads: how a single bad URL turns a $10 click into $0 ✅ The 3-step process for broken links that most dev teams skip  📊 KEY TAKEAWAYS: • The average breach goes undetected for 194 days — most brands find out from a customer, not their own monitoring • 7,966 new WordPress vulnerabilities were discovered in 2024. 96% were in third-party plugins. • 96% of shoppers who hit a site error never report it. They just leave. • A 100ms speed improvement drives 8.4% higher conversion and 9.2% higher average order value • Downtime costs the average e-commerce store $5,600 per minute — most brands have no real-time alert for it • Every click from a paid ad that lands on a broken page returns exactly $0 on that spend  🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES: Boozy Browsing: https://www.boozybrowsing.com/ Submit your site for a free 3E audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit Matt Dorman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewdorman/ Meeky Hwang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meekyhwang

    32 min

  7. MAR 30

    The Revenue Leaks Costing Outdoor Brands Up to $4.2M Per Year (And Nobody's Tracking Them)

    Meeky and Matt dig into the infrastructure gaps that bleed revenue from mid-market outdoor and DTC brands — not through obvious disasters, but through the quiet, daily losses nobody's measuring. Over Breakfast Stout and Not Your Father's Root Beer, they walk through eight validated pain points, the data behind each one, and what brands are doing (or not doing) about it.  🍺 Featured Drinks: Meeky: Breakfast Stout | Matt: Not Your Father's Root Beer  💡 WHAT WE COVER: ✅ Why 30% of e-commerce sites crash during Black Friday — and 77% of those shoppers buy from a competitor instead ✅ The silent customer loss problem: 96% of shoppers who hit a site error never report it. They just leave. ✅ How 100 milliseconds of speed improvement translates to 8.4% higher conversion and 9.2% higher average order value ✅ WordPress plugin risk in 2024: 7,966 new vulnerabilities, 96% in third-party plugins, 43% exploitable without authentication ✅ The 194-day average time to detect a breach — and why most brands find out from their customers, not their monitoring ✅ Why outdoor brands spend 10x more on marketing than on the infrastructure that determines whether that marketing converts ✅ Platform fees and forced migrations: what Shopify Plus's 25% price increase and new per-transaction fees mean for brands under $10M GMV ✅ The $260 billion cart abandonment problem — and the checkout friction that's responsible for most of it  📊 KEY TAKEAWAYS: • Technical infrastructure gaps cost mid-market DTC brands 5–14% of annual revenue. For a $30M brand, that's $1.5M–$4.2M per year. • 88% of e-commerce brands have lost $100K or more in a single month to preventable, undetected errors • A 1-second load time converts at 3x the rate of a 5-second load time — not a marginal difference • Brands that detect breaches internally save roughly $1M compared to finding out from an attacker or a customer • The spend math is broken: a $20M outdoor brand typically puts $2.4M into marketing and $2,400 into hosting  🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES: Boozy Browsing: https://www.boozybrowsing.com/ Submit your site for an audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit Matt Dorman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewdorman/ Meeky Hwang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meekyhwang

    42 min

  8. MAR 23

    Open Source Won. Now What? (Shopify vs. WooCommerce, Agentic Dev, and the Iceberg You're Missing)

    Open source won. That much is settled — 96% of commercial codebases contain open-source components, and WooCommerce still powers more e-commerce stores globally than any other platform. But winning doesn't mean you're done thinking about it. Meeky and Matt dig into what open source actually means for your business today: why Shopify's advantage over established platforms isn't technical, what the "iceberg" of a production site looks like from a developer's perspective, and how agentic software engineering is changing who gets to build — and why expertise still matters more than ever. Over Octopoda California Cabernet Franc and Coffee.  🍺 Featured Drinks: Meeky: Octopoda California Cabernet Franc | Matt: Coffee  💡 WHAT WE COVER:✅ Why Shopify's real advantage over open-source platforms isn't technology — it's distribution and lock-in by design ✅ Open source as the internet's public trail system: who maintains it, who freeloads, and why that tension matters ✅ The iceberg effect: what's actually running under a production site that clients never see ✅ Flexibility vs. responsibility — what you're signing up for when you go open source ✅ Agentic software engineering: what it changes, what it doesn't, and why domain expertise isn't optional ✅ Vibe coding is not real coding (and why that distinction is going to cost some teams dearly)  📊 KEY TAKEAWAYS: • 96% of all commercial codebases contain open-source components — open source isn't an alternative anymore, it's the default • WooCommerce powers roughly 39% of all e-commerce sites globally; Shopify holds about 27% among the top 1 million • Shopify's advantage is network effects and merchant tools, not a better technology stack — that's a solvable problem if you own your data • The "iceberg" of a production site: caching layers, deployment pipelines, monitoring, auth systems, job queues — all invisible to the client, all load-bearing • Agentic dev tools raise output speed — they don't replace the judgment that keeps production sites stable • Vibe coding produces working demos. It doesn't produce maintainable systems.  🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES: Boozy Browsing: https://www.boozybrowsing.com/ Submit your site for a free 3E audit: https://boozybrowsing.com#submit Matt Dorman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewdorman/ Meeky Hwang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meekyhwang

    27 min
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Cheers! Mix, Click, and Code with Us! Welcome to the digital speakeasy where WordPress wizards and design dabblers come together to sip, critique, and fix the web one cocktail at a time! Boozy Browsing is the podcast that turns technical troubleshooting into happy hour entertainment. What’s on tap? Each episode, our tech-tipsy hosts serve up a fresh themed cocktail while dissecting websites with the precision of seasoned developers (and the honesty that comes after a drink or two). From “The CSS Spritzer” to “The WordPress Whiskey Sour,” we’re mixing drinks and fixing links!

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