An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over a century ago could tip the scales for mathematics algorithms solvable in R, and solving the recent 2024 Advent of Code puzzles with data.table.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (X/Twitter) @colinfay.bsky.socialParallel and Asynchronous Programming in Shiny with future, promise, future_promise, and ExtendedTaskWriting Signed Trinary: or, Back To the Four Weights ProblemAdvent of Code with data.table: Week OneEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W51Supplement ResourcesFutureverse - A Unifying Parallelization Framework in R for Everyone https://www.futureverse.org/Non-blocking operations with ExtendedTask https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/improve/nonblocking/Asynchronous Shiny apps with crew and mirai https://wlandau.github.io/crew/articles/shiny.htmlBachet’s Four Weights Problem https://rworks.dev/posts/four-weights/Advent of Code 2024 https://adventofcode.com/Lime Bikes Summary Dashboard https://jokasan.github.io/Lime_Dash/Chapter image creditsAdvent of Code https://thenewstack.io/advent-of-codes-programming-puzzles-set-new-global-record/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music cr