diff --git a/Sources/HTTPServerWithQuiescingDemo/main.swift b/Sources/HTTPServerWithQuiescingDemo/main.swift
index 491fc241..f9da3985 100644
--- a/Sources/HTTPServerWithQuiescingDemo/main.swift
+++ b/Sources/HTTPServerWithQuiescingDemo/main.swift
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ private final class HTTPHandler: ChannelInboundHandler {
                     self.wrapOutboundOut(.head(HTTPResponseHead(version: head.version, status: .badRequest))),
                     promise: nil
                 )
+                let loopBoundContext = NIOLoopBound.init(context, eventLoop: context.eventLoop)
                 context.writeAndFlush(self.wrapOutboundOut(.end(nil))).whenComplete { (_: Result<(), Error>) in
-                    context.close(promise: nil)
+                    loopBoundContext.value.close(promise: nil)
                 }
                 return
             }
@@ -59,10 +60,10 @@ private final class HTTPHandler: ChannelInboundHandler {
             context.writeAndFlush(self.wrapOutboundOut(.body(.byteBuffer(buffer))), promise: nil)
             buffer.clear()
             buffer.writeStaticString("done with the request now\n")
+            let loopBoundContext = NIOLoopBound.init(context, eventLoop: context.eventLoop)
             _ = context.eventLoop.scheduleTask(in: .seconds(30)) { [buffer] in
-                context.write(self.wrapOutboundOut(.body(.byteBuffer(buffer))), promise: nil)
-                context.writeAndFlush(self.wrapOutboundOut(.end(nil)), promise: nil)
-
+                loopBoundContext.value.write(self.wrapOutboundOut(.body(.byteBuffer(buffer))), promise: nil)
+                loopBoundContext.value.writeAndFlush(self.wrapOutboundOut(.end(nil)), promise: nil)
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/Sources/NIOExtras/HTTP1ProxyConnectHandler.swift b/Sources/NIOExtras/HTTP1ProxyConnectHandler.swift
index 8ee5fe9c..eb9dc2fd 100644
--- a/Sources/NIOExtras/HTTP1ProxyConnectHandler.swift
+++ b/Sources/NIOExtras/HTTP1ProxyConnectHandler.swift
@@ -162,13 +162,14 @@ public final class NIOHTTP1ProxyConnectHandler: ChannelDuplexHandler, RemovableC
             return
         }
 
+        let loopBoundContext = NIOLoopBound.init(context, eventLoop: context.eventLoop)
         let timeout = context.eventLoop.scheduleTask(deadline: self.deadline) {
             switch self.state {
             case .initialized:
                 preconditionFailure("How can we have a scheduled timeout, if the connection is not even up?")
 
             case .connectSent, .headReceived:
-                self.failWithError(Error.httpProxyHandshakeTimeout(), context: context)
+                self.failWithError(Error.httpProxyHandshakeTimeout(), context: loopBoundContext.value)
 
             case .failed, .completed:
                 break
diff --git a/Sources/NIOWritePartialPCAPDemo/main.swift b/Sources/NIOWritePartialPCAPDemo/main.swift
index f7b94774..abcddc9f 100644
--- a/Sources/NIOWritePartialPCAPDemo/main.swift
+++ b/Sources/NIOWritePartialPCAPDemo/main.swift
@@ -130,21 +130,22 @@ let allDonePromise = group.next().makePromise(of: Void.self)
 let maximumFragments = 4
 let connection = try ClientBootstrap(group: group.next())
     .channelInitializer { channel in
-        let pcapRingBuffer = NIOPCAPRingBuffer(
-            maximumFragments: maximumFragments,
-            maximumBytes: 1_000_000
-        )
-        return channel.pipeline.addHandler(
-            NIOWritePCAPHandler(
-                mode: .client,
-                fileSink: pcapRingBuffer.addFragment
+        channel.eventLoop.makeCompletedFuture {
+            let pcapRingBuffer = NIOPCAPRingBuffer(
+                maximumFragments: maximumFragments,
+                maximumBytes: 1_000_000
             )
-        ).flatMap {
-            channel.pipeline.addHTTPClientHandlers()
-        }.flatMap {
-            channel.pipeline.addHandler(TriggerPCAPHandler(pcapRingBuffer: pcapRingBuffer, sink: fileSink.write))
-        }.flatMap {
-            channel.pipeline.addHandler(SendSimpleSequenceRequestHandler(allDonePromise: allDonePromise))
+            try channel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHandler(
+                NIOWritePCAPHandler(
+                    mode: .client,
+                    fileSink: pcapRingBuffer.addFragment
+                )
+            )
+            try channel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHTTPClientHandlers()
+            try channel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHandlers([
+                TriggerPCAPHandler(pcapRingBuffer: pcapRingBuffer, sink: fileSink.write),
+                SendSimpleSequenceRequestHandler(allDonePromise: allDonePromise),
+            ])
         }
     }
     .connect(host: "httpbin.org", port: 80)
diff --git a/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/PCAPRingBufferTest.swift b/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/PCAPRingBufferTest.swift
index 7534fadc..1674ba9a 100644
--- a/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/PCAPRingBufferTest.swift
+++ b/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/PCAPRingBufferTest.swift
@@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ class PCAPRingBufferTest: XCTestCase {
             )
         }
 
-        let channel = EmbeddedChannel()
         let trigger = self.dataForTests()[0..<triggerEndIndex]
             .compactMap { t in t.readableBytes }.reduce(0, +)
 
@@ -213,20 +212,14 @@ class PCAPRingBufferTest: XCTestCase {
             maximumBytes: 1_000_000
         )
 
-        let addHandlers =
-            channel.pipeline.addHandler(
-                NIOWritePCAPHandler(mode: .client, fileSink: pcapRingBuffer.addFragment),
-                name: "capture"
+        let channel = EmbeddedChannel(handlers: [
+            NIOWritePCAPHandler(mode: .client, fileSink: pcapRingBuffer.addFragment),
+            TriggerOnCumulativeSizeHandler(
+                triggerBytes: trigger,
+                pcapRingBuffer: pcapRingBuffer,
+                sink: testRecordedBytes
             )
-            .flatMap { () -> EventLoopFuture<Void> in
-                let triggerHandler = TriggerOnCumulativeSizeHandler(
-                    triggerBytes: trigger,
-                    pcapRingBuffer: pcapRingBuffer,
-                    sink: testRecordedBytes
-                )
-                return channel.pipeline.addHandler(triggerHandler, name: "trigger")
-            }
-        XCTAssertNoThrow(try addHandlers.wait())
+        ])
 
         channel.localAddress = try! SocketAddress(ipAddress: "255.255.255.254", port: Int(UInt16.max) - 1)
         XCTAssertNoThrow(try channel.connect(to: .init(ipAddress: "1.2.3.4", port: 5678)).wait())
diff --git a/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/SynchronizedFileSinkTests.swift b/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/SynchronizedFileSinkTests.swift
index 9a9ce277..5f806322 100644
--- a/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/SynchronizedFileSinkTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/NIOExtrasTests/SynchronizedFileSinkTests.swift
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ private func withTemporaryFile<T>(
     _ body: (NIOCore.NIOFileHandle, String) throws -> T
 ) throws -> T {
     let temporaryFilePath = "\(temporaryDirectory)/nio_extras_\(UUID())"
-    FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: temporaryFilePath, contents: content?.data(using: .utf8))
+    XCTAssertTrue(FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: temporaryFilePath, contents: content?.data(using: .utf8)))
     defer {
         XCTAssertNoThrow(try FileManager.default.removeItem(atPath: temporaryFilePath))
     }
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ private func withTemporaryFile<T>(
     _ body: (NIOCore.NIOFileHandle, String) async throws -> T
 ) async throws -> T {
     let temporaryFilePath = "\(temporaryDirectory)/nio_extras_\(UUID())"
-    FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: temporaryFilePath, contents: content?.data(using: .utf8))
+    XCTAssertTrue(FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: temporaryFilePath, contents: content?.data(using: .utf8)))
     defer {
         XCTAssertNoThrow(try FileManager.default.removeItem(atPath: temporaryFilePath))
     }