Perl Weekly Challenge 398‘s tasks are “Divisible Average” and “String Difference”.
This week, let’s listen to Ella Fitzgerald (accompanied by Duke Ellington and his orchestra) explaining that It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing…
Every year, we get more and more Trick-or-Treaters at our door. This year, it was 1091 people.
I always say that one of the reasons we get so many is my wife’s Halloween playlist she blasts out our front windows; and every year, I get asked what’s on it. Each year I hem and haw because I can’t remember everything, it changes every year, and my wife doesn’t keep the playlist somewhere I have access to.
So this year, I snuck onto the laptop driving the speakers, exported the playlist, mounted my laptop over the network and copied the file there. Here it is, Kelonzi’s 2026 Halloween Playlist:
Perl Weekly Challenge 397‘s tasks are “Absent Smallest Positive” and “Binary Reflection”.
I was talking to my wife about what music to pick this week, and she immediately started singing…
You’ve to to ab-sent the smallest positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Binary Reflection
Perl Weekly Challenge 396‘s tasks are “Finishing Order” and “Trionic Array”.
There isn’t much to go on for music here. There are a couple songs that are about finishing, but the thing that keeps popping into my head is the band New Order. I used “Blue Monday” back in PWC390, so let’s have “Sub-culture” this time.
Perl Weekly Challenge 395‘s tasks are “Complex Number” and “Word Squares”.
Complex Number, the night we met,
There was magic abroad in the air,
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in a Word Square.
Perl Weekly Challenge 394‘s tasks are “Alternate Case” and “Alternating Vowels Consonants”.
The word isn’t a major part of the song, but “alternate” does get repeated and repeated at the end of side two of Tales from Topographic Oceans: “The Remembering (High the Memory)“. So, sure, have 20+ minutes of Yes from 1973 while we work on this challenge…
Perl Weekly Challenge 393‘s tasks are “Pythagoras Multiplied” and “Prime Steps”.
As much as I hate the band, when I saw “steps”, I thought of Gimmie Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Then I remembered three is a prime number.
sigh. Sometimes the songs pick themselves.
Perl Weekly Challenge 392‘s tasks are “Convert Palindrome” and “Words Length Product”.
If we want music with palindromes, you can’t do much better than “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Bob.
Perl Weekly Challenge 391‘s tasks are “Array Median” and “Arrange Box”.
I was trying really hard to think of some music to go with “array”, “median”, or “arrange”… when a voice in my head hit me with a brick and said “Music. Box. The Musical Box, you bozo.”
So have 10+ minutes of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis to enjoy while you read my solutions to this week’s challenge.
Perl Weekly Challenge 390‘s tasks are “Decode String” and “Order Characters”.
Remember back in April, when PWC 369 had a task “Group Division”, and that made me think of the group Joy Division? Yeah, well “Order Characters” made me think of New Order, which is the band Joy Division turned into. So while we’re enjoying this coding challenge, enjoy all seven and a half minutes of Blue Monday.