I'm Max, a front-end software engineer. I'm currently working on starcrossed and costars.
You can find me on linkedin, codepen, github, and contact me at maxmiracolo@pm.me.
Ever wonder how those tile animations in Connections decide which square swaps with which? Discover the hidden logic behind tile-swap animations, and hear how I incorporated this into my daily puzzle game Starcrossed.
This post walks through the free and low-cost tools behind the architecture of Starcrossed, including Vercel, AWS, Cloudflare, browser storage APIs, and TMDB. I explain how each piece fits together to keep hosting costs near zero even as traffic grows.