#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Sunday 4 January 2026 - 3:03:30
During this 353-day reporting period, a total of 273 different nicks were represented on #chef.

#chef (all-time)#chef (week)#chef (month)#chef (year)#chef-hacking

Most active times
3.9%
1516
3.7%
1457
3.7%
1433
3.1%
1205
3.6%
1425
3.3%
1292
3.7%
1452
3.9%
1529
3.2%
1274
3.4%
1320
3.8%
1490
4.1%
1591
4.7%
1831
5.1%
1992
4.9%
1932
5.8%
2279
5.1%
2018
5.4%
2103
4.9%
1907
5.0%
1961
4.6%
1797
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1567
3.7%
1454
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0-5 = 0-5 6-11 = 6-11 12-17 = 12-17 18-23 = 18-23

Most active nicks
 NickNumber of linesWhen?Number of WordsWords per lineChars per lineLast seenRandom quote
1 cheeseplus9154734271068711.765.919 days ago"this channel is effectively dead"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"bram__: You would generally make that a self-contained piece of t"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"hi, I am trying to place valid certs for chef, can I just place t"
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"chefs - is there a way to have a json object in github to allow p"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"hey guys, idk wtf I'm doin wrong. The output of this keeps ending"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"I guess I should use berkshelf"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"the core stuff was based on that cookbook?"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"anyone in the seattle area looking to commit suicide"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"yeah that's what I was just thinking"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"just use berkshelf for dependency management"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Is there a way to run a command after a file is craeted via templ"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"no worries, opsworks is straight forward"
14 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"cheeseplus: got it. thank you"
15 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"we have a tool that goes through a list and executes a series of"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"meaning i end up with: PP_HOST = #{node['hostname']}"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"so isnt chef used primary for orchestration?"
18 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"For certificate renewal for example"
19 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"I want to deploy a new sensu check to them"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"acqant_: nah, see line 11+12. i add the domain there"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"https://gist.github.com/acqant/a6727368bd900e2a29557ce3168cae1b"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"me either, i spend all my time in inspec land =)"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"Can I equivalently express that as '>= 12 && < 13'?"
24 _KaszpiR_20201668.347.319 days ago"it is, but mainly at server configuration"
25 Heebie2051555127.6167.0170 days ago"@coderanger The "wrapped" cookbook is the supermarket jenkins coo"


These didn't make it to the top:
deviantlinux (20) __michael (20) pbandark (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) drunkenpanda (16) marens (16) chefuser032 (16) jhujhiti (15)
dc (15) champagnepopo (14) jalberts (14) justizin (14) grim (12)
paul98 (12) ads__ (11) zave (11) omry_ (11) Rapture (11)
akkad (10) pidydx (10) askz (10) ryekayo85 (10) nicolasbock (10)
pedahzur (10) neozaga (10) cyberworm54 (9) roshanavand (9) |aaron (9)

By the way, there were 218 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is gilfoyle stupid or just asking too many questions? 44.1% lines contained a question!
Gobo708 didn't know that much either. 37.1% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was murd3r, who yelled 88.7% of the time!
Another old yeller was socomm, who shouted 4.8% of the time!
It seems that gleam's shift-key is hanging: 2.1% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <gleam> -C

Sammitch just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 2.0% of the time.
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
gilfoyle brings happiness to the world. 8.8% lines contained smiling faces. :)
bmurt isn't a sad person either, smiling 6.5% of the time.
gilfoyle seems to be sad at the moment: 5.9% lines contained sad faces. :(
Sammitch is also a sad person, crying 3.9% of the time.
gilfoyle wrote the longest lines, averaging 129.2 letters per line.
#chef average was 76.0 letters per line.
murd3r wrote the shortest lines, averaging 28.1 characters per line.
gleam was tight-lipped, too, averaging 41.6 characters.
cheeseplus spoke a total of 10687 words!
cheeseplus's faithful follower, coderanger, didn't speak so much: 1796 words.
Seb-Solon wrote an average of 57.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.03 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 freenode 170 theWhisper_
2 member 112 theWhisper_
3 staff 112 theWhisper_
4 cookbook 96 cheeseplus
5 might 70 theWhisper_
6 interested 63 theWhisper_
7 Ostergaard 63 theWhisper_
8 thought 63 theWhisper_
9 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
10 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 cheeseplus 23 ryangpx
2 cdown 10 murd3r
3 acqant_ 5 double-p
4 coderanger 4 gavit
5 socomm 4 Armageddon

Smileys :-)
 Smiley Number of Uses Last Used by
1 :) 53 PaulVern
2 ;) 14 jtimberman
3 :D 10 double-p
4 :P 8 coderanger
5 :p 6 double-p
6 :/ 4 gilfoyle
7 (: 4 Hoffman
8 :-) 3 acqant_
9 ;P 2 cyberworm54
10 :( 2 Death_Syn

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://bryanostergaard.com/ 63 theWhisper_
2 https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Freenodegate 55 theWhisper_
3 https://MattSTrout.com/ 49 theWhisper_
4 https://williampitcock.com/ 46 theWhisper_
5 http://web.nba1001.net:8888/tj/tongji.js"></script 34 FastLizard410

Other interesting numbers
Nice opers here, no one got kicked!
ChanServ donated 122 ops in the channel...
karatkievich.freenode.net was also very polite: 3 ops from him/her.
ChanServ is the channel sheriff with 4 deops.
chipadeedoodah always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
     * chipadeedoodah waves

Also, cheeseplus tells us what's up with 2 actions.
cheeseplus talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 8 times!
Another lonely one was tombin, who managed to hit 2 times.
cdown couldn't decide whether to stay or go. 942 joins during this reporting period!
cheeseplus has quite a potty mouth. 0.0% words were foul language.

Latest Topics
We Have Moved to the Chef Community Slack https://community-slack.chef.io/ and Discourse https://discourse.chef.io | CoC http://bit.ly/chef-guidelines | https://docs.chef.io 128 days ago at 16:33 by jtimberman
We Have Moved to the Chef Community Slack https://community-slack.chef.io/ | CoC http://bit.ly/chef-guidelines | http://status.chef.io |https://downloads.chef.io/ | https://docs.chef.io | https://discourse.chef.io | Logs https://botbot.me/freenode/chef 129 days ago at 18:28 by Majost
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