#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Friday 16 January 2026 - 3:03:24
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
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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"what is it that you need to stub specifically?"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"So it's flat out not possible in the general case"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"but prefer irc as slack is resource hungry"
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"ohai chefs. i'm trying to set a yaml variable in a config file t"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"Hey guys, are there any good examples of using a helper library i"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"let me see what I can find from there then. thanks"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"I use chef-client::service_systemd in a run_list"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"now have all my machiens on chef-client 14!"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"cdown: Linux is 4 Niggers!"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"what's the 'get' equivalent of `Chef::Platform.set`?"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"chef_environment is special"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Hello. I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I'm having troub"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"just trying to get the hang of chef12.. confusing"
14 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"is the pricing public or do i have to contact sales?"
15 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"is it possible to add a cookbook to the dependencies list based o"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"i'm not using node['fqdn'] on purpose"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"google is too expensive on bandwidth so i try to avoid it or aws"
18 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"If not, I'll just prefix the class names"
19 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"So I need to know what resources I have available"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"but past calling it a day for today :)"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"ah, off topic: love powerdns :-)"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"might be missing a few bits though"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"I suppose I could test it out."
24 _KaszpiR_20201668.347.319 days ago"other may reuire just spawning new instances via API on schedule"
25 Heebie2051555127.6167.0170 days ago"Hello. I'm having difficulty with a data bag. I'm getting a mes"


These didn't make it to the top:
deviantlinux (20) __michael (20) pbandark (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) chefuser032 (16) drunkenpanda (16) marens (16) dc (15)
jhujhiti (15) jalberts (14) justizin (14) champagnepopo (14) grim (12)
paul98 (12) Rapture (11) zave (11) omry_ (11) ads__ (11)
akkad (10) neozaga (10) askz (10) ryekayo85 (10) pedahzur (10)
pidydx (10) nicolasbock (10) roshanavand (9) cyberworm54 (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.
marens_ 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 staff 112 theWhisper_
3 member 112 theWhisper_
4 cookbook 96 cheeseplus
5 might 70 theWhisper_
6 interested 63 theWhisper_
7 Ostergaard 63 theWhisper_
8 thought 63 theWhisper_
9 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_
10 Bryan 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 socomm 4 Armageddon
5 coderanger 4 gavit

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...
tolkien.freenode.net was also very polite: 3 ops from him/her.
ChanServ is the channel sheriff with 4 deops.
rora always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
     * rora bows.

Also, chipadeedoodah 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 JediMaster, 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
The topic was set 2 times.
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