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• Post #3252314

  Perl Weekly Challenge: You might think I’m crazy, but I don’t even care Perl Weekly Challenge 376's tasks are "Chessboard Squares" and "Doubled Words". I already picked Chess the musical back in PWC 281, double for 290, and word for 255 and 360, but I haven't given any musical love to squares, which is a shame, because it's hip to be square... (or, wait, do I mean… it's hip to be A square?). https://packy.dardan.com/b/r4

• Post #3252313

  Perl Weekly Challenge: They run and hide their heads / They might as well be dead… Perl Weekly Challenge 377's tasks are "Reverse Existence" and "Prefix Suffix". Hmmm. Reverse. What does "reverse" make me think of musically? The existence of this song. https://packy.dardan.com/b/rU

• Post #2999601

  Perl Weekly Challenge: Strings Will Tear Us Apart 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. https://packy.dardan.com...

• Post #2999600

  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...

• Post #2999599

  Perl Weekly Challenge: My subset is-a missing a letter… Perl Weekly Challenge 371's tasks are "Missing Letter" and "Subset Equilibrium". Immediately, I heard The Box Tops in my head. https://packy.dardan.com/b/of

• Post #2999598

  Perl Weekly Challenge: Empty Substrings and Empty Spaces Perl Weekly Challenge 372's tasks are "Rearrange Spaces" and "Largest Substring". The music connection is very train of thought and tenuous. 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,...

• Post #2999597

  Perl Weekly Challenge: Because your list, your list I can’t resist Perl Weekly Challenge 373's tasks are "Equal List" and "List Division". But if you insist on knowing my BLISS I'll tell you this If you want to know what the Reason is I only smile when I lie, then I'll tell you why... Because your kiss, your kiss is an equal list Because your kiss, your kiss divides my list Because your kiss is on my list of the best things in life...

• Post #2999596

  Perl Weekly Challenge: Hey, won’t you play… Perl Weekly Challenge 374's tasks are "Count Vowel" and "Largest Some-digits Number". I can't go back to Count von Count every time we have a counting problem, so I started thinking about "some". It didn't take long... my brain started asking "Hey... won't you play... another some-digits largest vowel count song? And make me feel at home..." https...

• Post #2999595

  Perl Weekly Challenge: I’ve got my back against the Turing machine… In this post, I'm starting to go back and filling in the challenges I missed in 2024-2025 when my mother was hospitalized and dying. Perl Weekly Challenge 295's tasks were "Word Break" and "Jump Game". As I discovered when I actually made myself a spreadsheet of my music choices, I used Joni Mitchell's Circle Game three separate times, so I decided to steer clear of t...

• Post #2999594

  Perl Weekly Challenge: You’ve got to get up every morning… Perl Weekly Challenge 375's tasks are "Single Common Word" and "Find K-Beauty". 🤔 Ok, I'm free-associating here, but the "K" and "Beauty" made me think of Carol King and Beautiful. https://packy.dardan.com/b/qf