Lee Rockwood

Sweet chilli jam Learn how to make your own sweet chilli jam with our easy recipe. This versatile condiment has a subtle spicy kick, and goes well with any selection of cold cuts of meat

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/swee... is the recipe he follows!

This is an excellent question and I'll either get a sensible answer and a recipe or I can never tell you 😂😂 I'll let you know

Disability is dropping glass objects and them smashing and you're unable to clean them up. That's twice in a week now! My dad's homemade chili jam on Monday and a bottle of soy sauce today. I just wanted some lunch #disability #disabledlife

The Expert in the Room Learning to speak up for myself started in hospital at four years old – and it’s still the most important skill I have

I learned to advocate for myself before I even knew the word.
At 4, my doctors at GOSH taught me to say when it hurt, when I’d had enough, when I wanted to stop. Prof Woo told me: “You’re always the expert in the room.” That’s still the best advice I’ve ever had.

The Theatre that Shut Disabled People Out "The Hunger Games" at Canary Wharf

A brand new theatre in 2025 - and wheelchair users still can’t see the stage.

The Hunger Games at Troubadour Canary Wharf literally built inequality into its design.

Accessibility isn’t a luxury or a card you pay for. It’s a right.
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#DisabilityRights

Accessibility shouldn’t depend on who complains loudest. After raising access issues at The Range Cheltenham, aisles have now been widened & a review’s underway. Progress matters — but inclusion must be built in, not fought for. #Accessibility #Inclusion

Finding My Strength (and Belonging) in St John Ambulance I had always wanted to be like the other children - though that was never really possible.

At 10, I joined St John Ambulance - the first place where my disability wasn’t a barrier.

I climbed a cargo net at camp, supported but not stopped.

Inclusion isn’t about limits - it’s about belief.

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As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body? I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

Reading Patrick Barkham’s Guardian piece hit close to home. In 2022 I was in a flare. Rheumatology said I’d been discharged without telling me or my GP. Even A&E couldn’t get me seen. Like Milly’s, my story shows the gaps. Been through similar? Share it.
#PatientVoice #DisabilityJustice

Beyond medicine The hidden cost of long-term hospital stays

Most hospitals are built for short stays. But what happens when weeks turn into months? As a child, I lived that reality. GOSH had play specialists, school staff and even the odd celebrity visit to break the monotony. Most kids don't get that.

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Lee Rockwood | Substack Disable 30 something with Juvenile Dermatomyositis. Subscribe for disability content, MRes journey, front end Web development thoughts and some general opinions. Click to read Lee Rockwood, a Substack...

Oh hi Bluesky it's been a while, my account got suspended for security reasons for a long while! But I'm back and writing a blog! I post on Mondays and there's a few to catch up on if ya like!

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threw in some support! never give up share if you can. 😊

Who made this 🤣

I haven't taken it but I bet this course is nice. I love that learn-through-writing-and-interative-examples approach.

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Was not particularly interested in seeing Wicked, and then my wife gave it a Media Studies framing and said it’s actually about how a gullible and ill-informed public is easy to manipulate with misinformation and I was all in, great movie, 10/10 so far.

Smallpox was a devastating illness, but it was also vulnerable to human ingenuity because:

1. It only infected people...it couldn't hide in animals.
2. It's a DNA virus, which makes its genome much more stable, and its mutation rate slower.
3. It was very clear when someone had smallpox.

One of my big surprises of 2024 was that we are actually making a lot of progress (albeit messy and with a great deal of argument) in the science of the origin of life on Earth.

If you’re under 40, we’ll probably have a pretty good understanding of it in your lifetime.

👨‍💻🎄 CSS Christmas Tree 🎄👩‍💻

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So. Veiny!

Woke up today, itchy eyes, snotty, very much hay-fever symptoms. Weird I think as it is December. I take my tablets and nasal spray and feel a bit better. We nip out for our shop and low and behold, trees are in blossom already! Months early! #allergiesAreEarly #globalWarming #stockUpOnFexofenadine

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

The most confusing part

various ways to scramble text with CSS alone || JavaScript

covered in this week's issue of "The Craft of UI" 🤙

Good writeup from @css-tricks.com on the situation with "Masonry"† and whether it belongs as part of grid or its own `display` type. It's largely neck-and-neck and won't move unless some minds on either side change.

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† Still a bad name.

The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything:

• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk

Building an Effective Dev Portfolio A free 70-page ebook that teaches you how to build a developer portfolio that appeals to employers

📚 Did you know I self-published a free book about building portfolio sites for developers looking for work?

It’s very short, about 70 pages, and contains a bunch of little tips and tricks I learned when I was doing career coaching.

You can download it here: www.joshwcomeau.com/effective-po...