Blogs on Will Harris

Trip to New York and Boston

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Friday 12 June – land at huge airport (JFK), train to Grand Central (very nice and modern station), check in at Pod 39. Dinner with Yuewen’s friend Xing Yi at Sichuan restaurant.

Saturday 13 June – Grand Central concourse, Bryant Park, New York Public Library. Hare Krishna parade. Central park.

Sunday 14th June – 9/11 memorial, Oracle transport hub, downtown, Liberty and Ellis Islands, Statue of Liberty, Immigration Museum, China Town, Greenwich Village.

Long weekend in Kent

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Friday 18th April — Monday 21st April 2025

Friday

We went for a walk from Wye along the North Downs Way.

The walk started from a church yard.

We passed large rape fields in fine weather.

We encountered a type of gate new to us.

We walked passed the Devil’s Kneading Trough and as far as Fish Pond’s Bottom.

The day ended at The Tickled Trout pub in Wye.

Epping Forest

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We started at the Original Tea Hut cafe, which is very popular with bikers.

Then we went for a walk. Yuewen tried on my 33L hiking backpack and found it to be comfortable, opening up the possibility of backpacking weekends.

We passed a pub that does Thai food at what looked like reasonable prices.

Unfortunately, it felt like we were near traffic for much of the walk. Epping Forest is long and thin so you’re never far from a road or car park.

Two day trip to Porto

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We saw some of Porto before crossing over to Villa Nova de Gaia to visit some of the port houses, which have river-front bars. First we stopped for at Quinta De Noval for a 10 year tawny. We thought this had a particularly nice silky, melt-in-your-mouth quality and would end up buying a bottle to take home.

Quinta De Noval 10 year tawny.

The next stop was Porto Cruz, where we had another 10 year tawny.

Three personal repositories I maintain

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

My dotfiles, such as my neovim config and my IPython startup scripts.

IPython startup scripts are run when opening a new IPython kernel. Being a data scientist and a heavy Jupyter notebooks user, having Numpy, Pandas, and other common libraries auto-imported saves me having to type the same lines at the top of every notebook. Furthermore, Pandas and matplotlib can be configued to use default styles when displaying a dataframe or a figure. I also configue automatic code formatting using jupyter-black.