After many failed attempts to solve it myself, I have stumbled on the desired solution. For the sake of completeness, here's what I had to do is replace the 
# simmulate a handful of iterations of sitting in what otherwise would
+ be an infinite loop
for my $i (0 .. 10)
{
   ...
}

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with the following 
$loop->recurring(1 => sub {
    $self->app->log->debug("Doing periodic useful thing");
});

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Of course, the new code is truly a while(1) loop, constantly firing the repeating event, rather than the original example which was only supposed to fire 11 times. However, I actually wanted this behavior anyways.

In reply to Re: Mojolicious websocket with server-side repeating events by gri6507
in thread Mojolicious websocket with server-side repeating events by gri6507

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