Golden Hour over Wellington Harbour.

In the first post we built a basic crossword engine in F# using Fable, Feliz, and React. In this post we’ll refactor the code to make it more idiomatic F#.

First a recap on the data types which make up the crossword. The grid is made up of a list of list of cells, with the cells being Black or White. Black cells are blocked out spacers, whereas in White cells we must enter a guess.

type White = {
    Number …

Friends and I compete at the NYT Mini Crossword, a daily crossword published by the New York Times which can be completed in a couple of minutes. The crossword is made from a mixture of cryptic, pop culture, and typical crossword style clues. When you begin the crossword the timer starts and when you finish it displays the time it took you to solve it.

In this series of blog posts I create a crossword engine using in F# using Fable, Feliz, React, and Bulma. To start with we get familiar with the …

An extract from Chapter 7

Finally Micromegas said to them, “Since you know what is exterior to you so well, you must know what is interior even better. Tell me what your soul is, and how you form ideas.” The philosophers spoke all at once as before, but they were of different views. The oldest quoted Aristotle, one mentioned the name of Descartes, another Malebranche; another Leibnitz, and another Locke. An old peripatetic spoke up with confidence: “The soul is an entelechy, …