967: What’s Going to Happen in Web Dev During 2026

Welcome to Syntax. We have our twenty twenty six predictions for you today. What's gonna happen? Twenty twenty six last year, we had an incredible hit rate. I mean, we were well into the eighty eighty a hun 800% accuracy. Yep. We guess things that we didn't even know that were gonna happen. And today, Wes and I are standing up. In fact, Wes was like, I'm standing up. And you know what I said? Me too. I'm standing up too. Let's do it. I'm a stander now. I can't wait to try stand for a week and a half and then sit down for the rest of the year. Yeah. Maybe I should do an episode on the treadmill. Get walking. Let's get into it, though. Let's get our predictions cooking here. What do we predict for the year 2026 in the world of web development? So number one here is web GPU and three d experiences pop. Man, let me tell you That Lando Norris website made some waves. And that made some waves that won't be felt until 2026. But when I think we're gonna really feel them with new experiences. Now we saw a lot of really cool GPU enhanced websites or websites that had a lot more shaders and graphical, elements and things like that. I mean, I think it's only gonna get crazier, for 2026 for sure. I think so too. Man, the cool landing page and this this kind of I'm gonna loop this in with with another one of my predictions is design making a comeback because everybody's cranking out the same decent looking website with AI and Raycast ass home page. Yeah. In order for and that's not a that's not a a a slander at at Raycast at all because Raycast, like, invented that whole UI. And it it kinda sucks that, like, your entire, like, aesthetic has become like a meme because it's so good and everybody copies it. But websites where you land on it and you feel like, wow. Somebody has actually put some work into this. It makes you stop and look at it and experience and feel good about the product because there's so many generic ass websites where I can't even tell if I'm on, like, what website I'm on. Sometimes I'm on threads and Twitter, and I don't even know what website I'm on because they all look exactly the same. And and part of that is good because it's like you just know what to expect and and just wanna use the application. But, also, like, there's there's some joy that's been lost in in the website. And I think three d, all these web GPU experiences are going to improve that. People are able to make new things. So, Simon LaMarche is working on shaders.com, and it's just, like, really sick. It's a web app and, like, an MPM package that you can just, like, use shaders together, and you can …