#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Wednesday 21 January 2026 - 3:03:20
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
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1961
4.6%
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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"the topic has the slack channel address and signup"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"I think it's like node['lsb']['codename'] or something"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"cheeseplus: I thought I had to force a /usr/bin/yum update -y"
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"is there any recommendation for calling the chef client on nodes"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"Hi guys, what's the best way of backing up and recovering individ"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"I've tried 100 different ways"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"No yeah I agree, but I wasn't aware of the managed option"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"is there a simple thing to swap in instead?"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"cdown: Linux is 4 Niggers!"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"well the :install is buried way down in the postfix cookbook :/"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"but broadly speaking you should use node['attr']"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Armageddon: sorry was cleaning up the pastebin"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"or do you just manually change it in metadata? cheers"
14 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"sigh...i hate that slack is slowly killing freenode"
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"ok thought so but wanted to confirm"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"CAN YOU POINT ME TO SOMETHING PLEASE?"
18 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"How do I get the recipe dependency graph of a node at runtime? Fo"
19 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"Question about structure within cookbooks,,,"
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"nah, it's fine... but your databag has all strings"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"me either, i spend all my time in inspec land =)"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"`chef_version '12'` seems to work, though?"
24 deviantlinux2041642121.1112.5158 days ago"Hi - are there any highly recommended/simple to follow cookbooks"
25 __michael202021310.754.9258 days ago"hm. so it’s just not possible without chef-server?"


These didn't make it to the top:
_KaszpiR_ (20) pbandark (20) Heebie (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) drunkenpanda (16) marens (16) chefuser032 (16) jhujhiti (15)
dc (15) champagnepopo (14) jalberts (14) justizin (14) paul98 (12)
grim (12) ads__ (11) omry_ (11) Rapture (11) zave (11)
ryekayo85 (10) askz (10) pidydx (10) nicolasbock (10) neozaga (10)
akkad (10) pedahzur (10) |aaron (9) cyberworm54 (9) roshanavand (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 staff 112 theWhisper_
3 member 112 theWhisper_
4 cookbook 96 cheeseplus
5 might 70 theWhisper_
6 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
7 interested 63 theWhisper_
8 Ostergaard 63 theWhisper_
9 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_
10 thought 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 Hoffman
7 :/ 4 gilfoyle
8 :-) 3 acqant_
9 :( 2 Death_Syn
10 ;P 2 cyberworm54

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.
rora always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
     * rora bows.

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 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.
Total number of lines: 39235.

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