696: Predictions for 2026, ADHD Updates, and Holiday Catchup

January 5, 2026

71 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

71 min

Read time

2 min

AI-Generated Summary

Published Jan 5, 2026

Key Takeaways

✓ADHD Medication Management: After trying three different medications including non-stimulants and Vyvanse, the experience involves managing capacity rather than experiencing dramatic cognitive shifts. Effects manifest as reduced daily crashes and improved task completion rather than neurotypical transformation or productivity lightning bolts.
✓Web Component Framework Gap: The ecosystem lacks a dedicated web component framework with file-system routing, SSR, signals, state management, TypeScript support, and middleware. Current options like Astro and Eleventy support web components secondarily rather than positioning them as first-class citizens requiring developers to work around limitations.
✓SPA Usage Data Reveals Misconception: Web performance tracking shows single page applications average only one soft navigation per session, contradicting long-held assumptions about user behavior. This data undermines the primary justification for SPA architecture complexity, suggesting multipage apps with view transitions provide equivalent user experience.
✓Browser Sanitization API Launch: The sanitizeHTML API ships cross-browser in February with allowElements and removeElements parameters, replacing 45-kilobyte libraries like DomPurify. Developers can whitelist specific HTML elements and attributes to prevent XSS attacks while maintaining WYSIWYG functionality without external dependencies.
✓Move Before API Preserves State: JavaScript's new moveBefore method maintains element state during DOM manipulation, preserving video playback, CSS animations, focus states, and web component mounting. This eliminates disconnected/connected callback cycles and performance overhead from traditional DOM manipulation requiring full remounting.

What It Covers

Chris and Dave discuss ADHD medication experiences after one year, debate the future of web components frameworks, explore new browser APIs like HTML sanitization, and predict reduced SPA usage with improved multipage app capabilities.

Key Questions Answered

•ADHD Medication Management: After trying three different medications including non-stimulants and Vyvanse, the experience involves managing capacity rather than experiencing dramatic cognitive shifts. Effects manifest as reduced daily crashes and improved task completion rather than neurotypical transformation or productivity lightning bolts.
•Web Component Framework Gap: The ecosystem lacks a dedicated web component framework with file-system routing, SSR, signals, state management, TypeScript support, and middleware. Current options like Astro and Eleventy support web components secondarily rather than positioning them as first-class citizens requiring developers to work around limitations.
•SPA Usage Data Reveals Misconception: Web performance tracking shows single page applications average only one soft navigation per session, contradicting long-held assumptions about user behavior. This data undermines the primary justification for SPA architecture complexity, suggesting multipage apps with view transitions provide equivalent user experience.
•Browser Sanitization API Launch: The sanitizeHTML API ships cross-browser in February with allowElements and removeElements parameters, replacing 45-kilobyte libraries like DomPurify. Developers can whitelist specific HTML elements and attributes to prevent XSS attacks while maintaining WYSIWYG functionality without external dependencies.
•Move Before API Preserves State: JavaScript's new moveBefore method maintains element state during DOM manipulation, preserving video playback, CSS animations, focus states, and web component mounting. This eliminates disconnected/connected callback cycles and performance overhead from traditional DOM manipulation requiring full remounting.

Notable Moment

One developer built a recipe sharing site using AI code generation connected to Supabase, only to discover the database used a single key-value table storing everything as JSON blobs rather than proper relational tables, creating unfixable security and scalability issues.

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