#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Thursday 4 December 2025 - 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
4.0%
1567
3.7%
1454
3.6%
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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"zave: the gui itself isn't relevant but it's not best practice to"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"So it's flat out not possible in the general case"
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"cheeseplus: https://pastebin.com/ympJBhfd like this ?"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"no, package install, then template"
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"ya i get you, im not arguing.."
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"anyone in the seattle area looking to commit suicide"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"I'm having some trouble writing a definition, the default value `"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"i really don't know opsworks, sorry"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"I am running "knife download -c ~/.chef/knife.file.rb --chef-repo"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"Ok, are many of them up to date?"
14 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"just looked back into the logs and it took 36 mins"
15 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"k. priced by the number of nodes?"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"PP_HOST = <%= @common_hostname.chomp(".domain.com") %>"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"so i only have aws and google as options?"
18 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"Aha, I can parse that out of the graph in Berksfile.lock"
19 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"I see foodcritic recommends to use shell_out instead of ``, but t"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"hmm, is there something special with chef-zero and simple_iptable"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"in the recipe, nagios_path='this'"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"bridging has all sorts of fun issues"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"("under 12" meaning "within 12.*.*")"
24 __michael202021310.754.9258 days ago"is there a simple explanation?"
25 deviantlinux2041642121.1112.5158 days ago"Hi, is it possible, from a recipe, to tag a separate node? I am"


These didn't make it to the top:
Heebie (20) _KaszpiR_ (20) pbandark (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) marens (16) chefuser032 (16) drunkenpanda (16) dc (15)
jhujhiti (15) jalberts (14) champagnepopo (14) justizin (14) paul98 (12)
grim (12) omry_ (11) zave (11) ads__ (11) Rapture (11)
pidydx (10) akkad (10) nicolasbock (10) ryekayo85 (10) pedahzur (10)
neozaga (10) askz (10) cyberworm54 (9) |aaron (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 member 112 theWhisper_
3 staff 112 theWhisper_
4 cookbook 96 cheeseplus
5 might 70 theWhisper_
6 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_
7 interested 63 theWhisper_
8 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
9 Ostergaard 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 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.
chipadeedoodah always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
     * chipadeedoodah waves

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.
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