#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Wednesday 20 August 2025 - 3:03:19
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"what is it that you need to stub specifically?"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"bram__: You would generally make that a self-contained piece of t"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"most online examples show the command without the" [{}]""
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"reading the chef-client help page i can use -j to feed a file wit"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"I've found a pretty big issue with the chef_client_updater cookbo"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"I've also tried shell_out().stdout"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"I've gone ahead with using the managed server, works so far"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"ya i was wondering if there was a namespace colision"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"cdown: Linux is 4 Niggers!"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"cheeseplus: community-slack.chef.io ?"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"or is it part of a systemd cookbook"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Armageddon: Ah, okay. Let me try."
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"-c has no file... is there a way to generate it first time?"
14 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"Is there a clean cheffing way to define a chef resource as single"
15 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"sigh...i hate that slack is slowly killing freenode"
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"Which nodes are using consul client, in some way"
19 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"How do I get the recipe dependency graph of a node at runtime? Fo"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"(hope noone kills me for this 'beauty' :D )"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"They are both String Objects in ruby"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"Hash #fetch would help here, but you'll have to write lots of han"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"Does pessimistic version constraining work with major-only spec?"
24 _KaszpiR_20201668.347.319 days ago"would have to search for some public cloud providers"
25 __michael202021310.754.9258 days ago"hm. so it’s just not possible without chef-server?"


These didn't make it to the top:
deviantlinux (20) pbandark (20) Heebie (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) marens (16) chefuser032 (16) drunkenpanda (16) dc (15)
jhujhiti (15) justizin (14) jalberts (14) champagnepopo (14) grim (12)
paul98 (12) zave (11) Rapture (11) omry_ (11) ads__ (11)
akkad (10) pedahzur (10) ryekayo85 (10) pidydx (10) askz (10)
neozaga (10) nicolasbock (10) roshanavand (9) |aaron (9) cyberworm54 (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 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_
7 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
8 Ostergaard 63 theWhisper_
9 thought 63 theWhisper_
10 interested 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.
cheeseplus always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
     * cheeseplus heads out to gym

Also, rora 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
The topic was set 2 times.
Total number of lines: 39235.

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