Lost in the Storm
The studio of Yinan Li, 罗盘Cuosto. Design, software, and writing from open water.
The compass went overboard before the storm had a name.
The boat still answers the tiller.
Direction appears afterward, written in the wake.
Chart 01 · Selected work
Six landfalls
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End-to-End Optimization for Food Delivery
Thirteen days riding with delivery couriers in Guilin, turned into an AR heads-up display, a city-scale dispatch view, and a service blueprint.
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ProlifGaze Matrix
A point-cloud landscape on the proliferation of symbols, the gaze, and self-alienation, built in Unity for room-scale VR.
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Psychoanalysis of AI Dreams
Reading the dreams of a machine through Lacan, in cyanotype prints, silicone hands, and experimental video.
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nanoPod
A menu-bar music player for Apple Music with line-synced lyrics drawn from eight sources and a custom CALayer renderer.
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nightCrawl
A local-first stealth browser daemon that browses the hostile web as its owner, with the owner's own cookies and fingerprints.
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searching-apple-notes
On-device semantic search that turns an Apple Notes archive into an AI-readable knowledge base.
Harbor · About
Cuosto is Latin custos, the keeper. 罗盘 is the compass.
Yinan Li is a founder, designer, and writer. Lost in the Storm is the studio: service design, installations, macOS software, and essays. This paragraph is a placeholder for the real about copy.
- Email · pending
- X · pending
- GitHub · pending
- Xiaohongshu · pending