Perl Weekly Challenge 371‘s tasks are “Missing Letter” and “Subset Equilibrium”. Immediately, I heard The Box Tops in my head.
Perl Weekly Challenge: My subset is-a missing a letter…
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Perl Weekly Challenge: The scramble can not stop you / from becoming popu-ler… lar
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: Strings Will Tear Us Apart
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: And the 2013 Tony Award for Best Coding Challenge goes to…
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: Conflicting Every Odd
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: The Times They Are A-Countin’
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: I’ll be the smartest bird the world has ever seen!
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: Andrés Cantor Goes West
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: I Shot The Subnet…
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: You Have No Choice
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…