Performance Optimizing a Squareword solver

Overview Previously, I started to create a program to solve squareword puzzles. Squareword is similar to Wordle, except that instead of guessing 1 word, the final solution consists of a 5x5 grid of letters where each row and column are words. I’d seen videos like 3Blue1Brown’s on writing a program to solve Wordle. I thought it’d be interesting to do the same thing, but for SquareWord. One big difference, is that find solutions in Wordle is trivial, its just a single word.

Staring to blog

I want to try verbalizing my thoughts more, and I figured blogging is a good way to do that. I’m expecting this to be mostly technical, but it might stray from programming specific things as well. I want to start a blog as both a technical exercise, but also a way to express myself. One thing I know I need to get better at is getting something out there, regardless of how good it is.