Hugin

Hugin is an open-source panorama photo stitcher for hobbyists. Unfortunately, macOS only ships a 2019 binary that's been broken since Sonoma.

I spent ~500K Claude tokens wiring up a Homebrew tap that builds Hugin and all its dependencies from source:

brew tap danwald/hugin
brew install hugin-src-2025   # ~2 min build
hugin-link                     # symlinks into ~/Application *

• the last step is required because it's built from source

The danwald/homebrew-hugin tap handles the full build chain — no pre-built bottles, just source (with some compatibility patches) all the way down.

I would have gotten there sooner if I'd just led with:

alias claude='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions'

Happy Hackin'!

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References:

• Hugin: open-source panorama stitcher

• danwald/homebrew-hugin: Homebrew tap