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Nicholas Henry

@nicholasjhenry.github.io
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Senior #elixirlang Developer | Contract B2B | Trusted by US & UK Software Teams | Remote from Canada

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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 29/06/2026
OMG, latest version of Hex (`mix local.hex --force`) prints out CVEs that affect your packages any time you run `mix deps.get` 🤩 #ElixirLang
mix deps.get output, showing Earmark 1.4.48 marked as "RETIRED!" and "VULNERABLE!" due to CVE-2026-48591, "Stored XSS via unescaped HTML attribute values in earmark"
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 20/11/2025
When the work of our authors intersects, it's amazing. Such a privilege to provide a platform for all these talented, passionate humans. And, their books are included in our Black Friday, 50% off sale!
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Nicholas Henry @nicholasjhenry.github.io · 30/10/2025
Been playing with how AI agents can run their own #phoenix workspaces without tripping over ports or DBs. Ended up using Conductor to spin up isolated dev environments — fast, clean, and super handy when you’ve got multiple agents working in parallel. nicholasjhenry.medium.com/building-iso...
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Building Isolated Phoenix Workspaces for AI Agents with Conductor
I’ve been experimenting with agentic coding — letting AI agents handle multiple tasks in parallel across my codebase. The promise is…
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Nicholas Henry @nicholasjhenry.github.io · 17/09/2025
I 💜 this passage from @jkwa.bsky.social buff.ly/xIVq6gW "... understanding doesn’t parallelize, and complexity doesn’t distribute. Each new contributor must climb the same tangled mess... even more time is spent coordinating, clarifying, and patching over mismatches in mental models." #elixirlang
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Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir
Use advanced functional programming principles, practical domain-driven design techniques, and production-ready Elixir code to build scalable, complex systems from simple, reusable components.
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Joseph Koski @jkwa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I just finished putting together interactive Livebook notebooks for every chapter of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir. You can now run all the examples in your browser. Or like me, spin them up locally with Docker: www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09... #elixirlang hashtag#AFPElixir
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Livebook Examples from Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir
It feels a bit impolite to ask readers to download code and type mix commands just to run the examples. We have better tools now.
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JEG2 @jeg2.me · 02/09/2025
The Groxio team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use #ElixirLang #Consulting help from one or more of us, let’s talk! groxio.com
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Groxio Consulting - Expert Elixir Development
Expert Elixir consulting from the authors of key Elixir books. System architecture, training, and development services.
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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 04/09/2025
Explanation: Prior to #ElixirLang 1.19, it was deemed sufficient to compile deps one at a time (compile Phoenix, then LiveView, then Postgrex, then Ecto, etc.), because each individual compilation would be parallelized across all cores. However... 🧵
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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 03/09/2025
My #ElixirConf 2025 talk, “Cat and Mouse: Challenges in Adversarial Web Scraping” is now online! Here’s everything I know about scraping and avoiding being scraped. youtu.be/8mumTeuiZ6o?... #ElixirLang
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Cat and Mouse: Challenges in Adversarial Web Scraping - Tyler Young | ElixirConf US 2025
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ElixirConf @elixirconf.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Bot detection goes way beyond user agents TLS handshake to JavaScript execution tracking @tylerayoung.com‬ explores the cat-and-mouse game of web scraping vs bot detection. #ElixirConfUS
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Cody Russell @bratsche.org · 29/08/2025
Web scraping issues presented from the perspectives of both the scraper and the server operator by @tylerayoung.com at @elixirconf.bsky.social
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Nicholas Henry @nicholasjhenry.github.io · 30/08/2025
And that's a wrap! That was a really inspiring @elixirconf.bsky.social during the most disruptive time in our industry. Thank you to everyone who discussed the talk with me afterwards. It's really helpful and rewarding to know what the audience learned. See you in Chicago! #elixirconf #elixir
Nicholas Henry at ElixirConf presenting Mise en Place for Ecto: Organizing Domain Complexity with Business Rule Thinking
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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 28/08/2025
Really enjoyed @nicholasjhenry.github.io’s talk on validating business rules in Ecto. It had never occurred to me that we should validate some of our association rules in the context, not the schema’s changeset function, but I’m convinced!
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Nicholas Henry @nicholasjhenry.github.io · 22/08/2025
I'll be presenting at @elixirconf.bsky.social next week on how to apply Business Rule Thinking with Ecto. If you want to learn how to discover and implement business rules in rich domains, this might be a talk for you. elixirconf.com/talks/mise-e... See you there! #ElixirLang #ElixirConf
Mise en Place for Ecto: Organizing Domain Complexity with 
Business Rule Thinking
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Nicholas Henry @nicholasjhenry.github.io · 02/07/2025
My #elixirconf 2024 talk has been published! "Beyond Mocks: Messing with Our Preconceptions of Testing" I discuss the challenges of using test mocks and how they can lead to unreliable tests. I introduce the Nullable pattern from James Shore applied to testing with external dependencies in Elixir.
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Beyond Mocks Messing with Our Preconceptions of Testing
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Nicholas Henry @nicholasjhenry.github.io · 01/02/2025
A new blog post from the field; week 27 Jan 2025
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Debugging with erl_crash.dump: A Practical Example from the Field
Debugging with an Elixir release? Learn to use erl_crash.dump — from application_controller to stack traces.
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