tilvember is a concept coined by Thomas Rigby who describes it as
This November, I will aim to share at least one thing I have learned that day on my blog in, what I’m calling,TILvember
I’m aiming to do the same in 2025 but instead of doing it on my blog, I’ll do it here in my digital garden. I’ll make notes of things I learn and add them to a (hopefully) growing list below.
2025
Nov 1st
As the cross-country skiing season started today with the Finnish Cup, I was surprised to learn that the snow used was cannoned last season and stored over summer for use this weekend. This snow is then stored either under mats designed to isolate and keep snow cold enough to utilise even up to 90% of the snow later in the year or under sawdust that has about 50-60% utility rate.
Last year, BBC wrote about how Finnish ski resorts save snow.
Nov 2nd
I learned that there’s a better interface to create and manage tables in HTML through HTMLTableElement.
Nov 3rd
One of the weirdest TILs this year I learned from Mastodon and is about a Finnish children’s song. In 1950s, Finnish actor and composer Georg Malmstén composed Lasten liikennelaulu (in Finnish) that’s been recorded multiple times ever since and is probably known by every Finn.
The weird part is that the work was originally paid by the oil company Shell (in Finnish).