It's 2026, FileZilla is still alive, and so am I. Barely.

Recently, I started helping a friend with an e-commerce site, which is not really my area. Especially when it involves platforms like "NuvemShop", "uCommerce", and all these kinds of stuff.

E-commerce is definitely not my thing. I have nothing against it. The problem is that they require more work to do simple things that should just be simple. Kind of a nightmare sometimes.

I know there are a lot of new tools and platforms like Builder.io that can make your life easier. However, these platforms aren't easy for non-tech people, and for Brazilians, the pricing doesn't help either, since most of them charge in dollars. Even though they have great documentation, drag & drop UIs, and all these cool things, non-tech people still don't get it. That's why they ask friends to help lol

Given that, my task was to develop a few pages using their NuvemShop subscription. Terrible experience. There are a lot of limitations in the NuvemShop page builder, which almost made me cry. So I tried to look at it as an opportunity to learn something new. Try to understand how developers have been doing this kind of work nowadays.

And to my sadness, there is no fancy AI-powered, cool, or happy new way to make it work.

That's it.

Then, I saw a message in the panel saying:

"You can edit the HTML, CSS and Javascript directly from an FTP client using these access credentials."

FTP? Directly? So, you mean... FileZilla?

...

Have you ever heard about FileZilla?

If not, you're probably young.

FileZilla. Yes, that FileZilla.

The ancient FTP client that developers have been using since before some of us were born. The one with the UI that looks like Windows XP had a rough night. Four cluttered panels, a raw protocol log screaming gibberish at you in real time, and the quiet dread of not knowing if your file actually uploaded or just pretended to.

Working with NuvemShop and FileZilla together in 2026 is a special kind of punishment. You save a file, drag it across panels like it's 2004, wait for the transfer bar to crawl across the screen, only to refresh the page and realize you uploaded it to the wrong folder. So you do it again. And again. And again. And again... No hot reload. No git push. No CI/CD pipeline saving your soul. Just you, a blinking cursor, and FileZilla.

And the worst part? There's no way out when the hosting is old-school shared hosting. You're stuck with it. FileZilla and you, together, suffering, until the deployment is done.

So yeah, the only learning here was that, thankfully, the development world is getting better and better each year. If you're younger and started working with tech nowadays, you're living in a great era. For us, programming dinosaurs, let's all give a hug and celebrate that these times passed fast!!!!!