Perl Weekly Challenge 372‘s tasks are “Rearrange Spaces” and “Largest Substring”.
The music connection is very train of thought and tenuous. This morning, my wife linked me a short of The Lakes Brass Quintet playing a polka arrangement of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Misérables. Yet in my head, I was repeating the incorrect lyric “empty chairs and empty spaces“. So now, when I think spaces, all I can think of is this.
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Perl Weekly Challenge 371‘s tasks are “Missing Letter” and “Subset Equilibrium”. Immediately, I heard The Box Tops in my head.
Perl Weekly Challenge 370‘s tasks are “Popular Word” and “Scramble String”. I’m sure I could have found some music to do with scrambling, but considering I started pairing these posts with music back when the task was “Seize The Day!” and my mind immediately went to Newsies, I decided I needed to stay in my musical theatre lane and go with the Popular option.
And, speaking of theater, the reason I’m so late this week is because every evening I’ve been running sound for a local production of Julius Cæsar. I had to wait to do my coding on the weekend.
Perl Weekly Challenge 369‘s tasks are “Valid Tag” and “Group Division”.
Really, when I saw the word “Division”, it made me think of the 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees which were announced last night, which included Joy Division and New Order being inducted together. So let’s have some Joy Division to code to: Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Perl Weekly Challenge 368‘s tasks are “Make it Bigger” and “Big and Little Omega”.
I swear, Mohammad Sajid Anwar must be teasing me with these titles, since the first one is lifted verbatim from the lyrics of the opening number to the 2013 Tony Awards telecast, “Bigger!” (written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt and performed by the inimitable Neil Patrick Harris).
Perl Weekly Challenge 367‘s tasks are “Max Odd Binary” and “Conflict Events”. Since my wife won’t let me forget I’m part of “the Phil Collins set”1, let’s lean into it and say this week’s musical theme is Against All Odds.
Perl Weekly Challenge 366‘s tasks are “Count Prefixes” and “Valid Times”. When I looked at the second task, and I saw how the times were changin’, I needed to listen to some Robert Allen Zimmerman.
Perl Weekly Challenge 365‘s tasks are “Alphabet Index Digit Sum” and “Valid Token Counter”. I thought about trying to find some song referencing tokens (like subway tokens) or validity, but I kept hearing Caroll Spinney’s voice in my head.
Perl Weekly Challenge 364‘s tasks are “Decrypt String” and “Goal Parser”. Because task 2’s second example is decidedly a tribute to Andrés Cantor, that meant I needed to think “soccer” when I was thinking about the music this week, and suddenly I heard Arsenal fans singing in my head.
Perl Weekly Challenge 363‘s tasks are “String Lie Detector” and “Subnet Sheriff”.
I challenge anyone to not think of I Shot The Sheriff given those tasks.