Perl Weekly Challenge 360‘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.
Perl Weekly Challenge 362‘s tasks are Echo Chamber (which made me think maybe I should pick something by Echo and the Bunnymen) and Spellbound Sorting.
Spellbound? …yeah, I had to give you the song by Siouxsie and The Banshees. Especially because this was the task that took the most time…
Perl Weekly Challenge 361‘s tasks are “Zeckendorf Representation” and “Find Celebrity”, where a celebrity is someone everyone knows, so…
Since Perl Weekly Challenge 360‘s tasks are “Text Justifier” and “Word Sorter”, I first thought about trying to find some song in my music collection that featured justification. “That shouldn’t be hard,” I thought, “because I’ve got so much folk…”
Then the weird part of my brain took over, and insisted on Al Yankovich’s Word Crimes.