Boozy Browsing: Pour Decisions in Web Development

Part two gets practical. This is where Matt and Meeky move from the cost of performance issues to the fixes that actually matter. Image formats. Compression. Third-party tracking scripts. Hosting choices. The stuff teams keep postponing because none of it feels urgent until the site slows down enough to hurt revenue. The point is not that every site needs a rebuild. The point is that most sites do...

A slow site does not usually fail all at once. It bleeds revenue a few milliseconds at a time. In part one of this two-part Boozy Browsing episode, Matt and Meeky get into the hidden cost of web performance. Not vanity metrics, not Lighthouse theater, the real business tax of latency, image bloat, script overload, and mobile friction. The kind of problems that do not always trip alarms, but quietl...

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 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 sit...

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 surv...

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 pr...

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 an...

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...

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:...

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...

Episode 50. We made it.  Meeky and Matt look back on the full run — the guests who shifted how they think, the technical disasters that became the best stories, and the AI debates that keep getting louder every year.  This one's less structured than usual. It's a reflection.  Pull up a drink.  🍺 Featured Drinks: Meeky: Seaglass Sauvignon Blanc Matt: Upslope Brewing Oatmeal Stout  💡 WHAT WE COVER...

Meeky and Matt audit a real local business website, covering accessibility, design consistency, competitor benchmarking, and what's holding the site back from converting visitors into customers. 💡 WHAT WE COVER: ✅ Accessibility and readability issues that cost local businesses customers ✅ Design consistency problems and how they erode user trust ✅ Competitor analysis: what the good sites in th...

Meeky and Matt ditch live audits and unpack three internet-is-getting-weird trends: the Dead Internet Theory, vibe coding vs. junior developers, and whether AI agents are productivity magic or a security nightmare. Over Bourbon Barrel-aged Cabernet and Busey Brews beer, they debate whether bots are inflating engagement and whether the future of websites is built for humans or agents. 🍺 Featured D...

Meeky and Matt dig into AI-driven personalization: the marketing promise, the real implementation gap, and why a segment of one sounds great until it gets creepy. Over Meeky's Sweet Baby Jesus Porter and Matt's White River Saison, they break down why ROI stats are often misleading, why pilot purgatory happens, and what it really takes to personalize without tanking user trust. 🍺 Featured Drinks:...

Meeky and Matt skip the live site audits and dig into what's actually trending in dev tools. Over a Josh Cellars Sauvignon Blanc and Matt's mushroom coffee experiment, they break down why Cursor and Claude Code are blowing up, what agents actually change, why MCP is being called the USB-C of AI, and where the hype gets messy with AI washing. 🍺 Featured Drinks: Josh Cellars 2024 Sauvignon Blanc an...

Meeky goes solo to share a fascinating experiment: recreating her entire 2013 thesis film using AI in just 2 days. Over a 32oz Boozy Brews Citrus Smash, she breaks down why AI nailed the prototype but failed spectacularly at consistency—and how this mirrors exactly what happens with AI coding tools. Spoiler: the problems are identical. 🍺 FEATURED BEER: Boozy Brews Citrus Smash (Nederland, CO)  🚨...

Matt's eyes are completely dilated from his eye check-up, so he literally can't see—which makes him the perfect accessibility tester. Over 32oz cans of Busey Brews Milk Stout, Matt and Meeky audit websites while functionally blind, revealing how broken sites expose catastrophic backlog mismanagement. Spoiler: SSL failures and missing images aren't accidents—they're symptoms. 🍺 Featured Beer: Buse...

In this episode of Boozy Browsing, Matt and Meeky step back from live site audits to talk about what it actually takes to prepare your platform for 2026. From shared monitoring mishaps to outdated workflows and reactive decision-making, they introduce the 3E Framework for building platforms that are resilient, fast, and ready to scale. 🍺 Featured Drinks: Tears of Our Enemies Scottish Ale (Westfax...

Matt sets out to do a real-world shopping test by going all the way through checkout, but the buying decision starts to unravel fast. In this episode, we browse e-commerce sites the same way real customers do and unpack the small UX, navigation, and trust issues that quietly stop people from purchasing, even when they’re ready to buy. 🍺 Featured Drinks: Buck Shack Cabernet Sauvignon (aged in bour...

Matt and Meeky are auditing real websites over Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout and Sweet Baby Jesus Porter, breaking down quick wins ANY site owner can implement—no developer required. From unclear CTAs to cluttered homepages, we're showing you exactly what's killing your conversions and how to fix it fast. 🍺 Featured Drinks: Left Hand Mexican Hot Chocolate Milk Stout & DuClaw Sweet Baby Jesus Po...

Meeky and Matt are back for Lightning Round Part 2, auditing 8 more e-commerce sites over sake and cider and this time, most sites actually impressed us! From Vuori's flawless 5/5 performance to accessibility fails and checkout quirks, we're breaking down what separates elite e-commerce from mediocre. Plus: why micro-interactions matter, the pop-up strategy that works, and what happens when your f...

In this episode, we pour ourselves a drink and dive into the wild world of website features that accidentally sabotage conversions. You know the usual culprits. Sliders that move faster than anyone can read. Mega menus that unfold like they are trying to swallow the entire screen. Pop ups that jump out the moment you simply exist. We break down why these design choices confuse users, tank conversi...

Matt Dorman takes the mic solo in this lightning round of e commerce site reviews, but not before making one very on brand mistake. He recorded the whole thing without turning on screenshare and had to redo everything from scratch. But that is besides the point. Once he recovers, Matt speed runs through a lineup of online stores, breaking down what works, what is weird, and what absolutely sends c...

Today’s Lunch and Learn was a grounded conversation about leadership when the calendar is full, the inbox is loud, and half the team is out for the holidays. We talked about why communication tends to slip at the end of the year and how strong leadership shows up most clearly during these high-stress moments. Using the 3E Framework, audience, creator, and developer experiences, we shared practical...

In this episode, Meeky and Matt pour a glass and dive into the chaos and charm of multi-team collaborations. Before they even get into the topic, Matt has to fight off a very determined fly: a perfect metaphor for the tiny, unexpected distractions that somehow derail entire projects. Once the fly surrenders, they unpack why communication sometimes feels like a group text gone wrong, why alignment...