That ugly garish purple travesty shows up in the menu bar whenever your screen is being recorded by any number of apps. From Apple's perspective, they probably consider it a good thing, as it lets a user know their screen is being recorded, and I understand that logic.| The Robservatory
The macOS’ version of the cp Unix command won’t create links| The Robservatory
Back in the early Mac OS X iTunes era, there was a wonderful small window available that had control buttons, volume control, a visual progress bar, and a text display showing the artist, song, and album—it could even display a graphic equalizer in lieu of the artist-album-song info:| The Robservatory
Why hidden UI is bad UI—example number 4,516,672,523| The Robservatory