#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Sunday 1 March 2026 - 3:03:35
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
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1433
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1205
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1425
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1292
3.7%
1452
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1529
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1274
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1320
3.8%
1490
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1591
4.7%
1831
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1992
4.9%
1932
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2279
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2018
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2103
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1907
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1961
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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"grim: https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/iis/blob/85008c5dda039b2f"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"So it's flat out not possible in the general case"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"RubyMine makes it red, but lets see what happens"
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"chefs - sometimes I'm seeing that running chef-client on my box h"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"Chef is awesome, just thought I'd say that"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"under what conditions will a system NOT make a backup of a file?"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"The quicker I get this setup working the better"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"ya i was wondering if there was a namespace colision"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"and dont you never forget it"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"centos/systemd image + enabling /etc/oci-register-machine.conf"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"ah i've never used berks package"
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"Ok, are many of them up to date?"
14 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"sigh...i hate that slack is slowly killing freenode"
15 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"I can't seem to find clear information anywhere, but.. is it poss"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"meaning i end up with: PP_HOST = #{node['hostname']}"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"hi all, i would like to scale up my docker image which is running"
18 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"https://bpaste.net/show/b07e6f09535c for this kind of tricks"
19 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"@cheeseplus - sorry , I got called away."
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"ah, off topic: love powerdns :-)"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"sounds like you need to upgrade or downgrade some things"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"I suppose I could test it out."
24 pbandark20613130615.396.2206 days ago"Kindly ignore.. found the cause"
25 Heebie2051555127.6167.0170 days ago"Cervator: Hopefully someone will bridge this into Slack."


These didn't make it to the top:
deviantlinux (20) _KaszpiR_ (20) __michael (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) drunkenpanda (16) chefuser032 (16) marens (16) jhujhiti (15)
dc (15) jalberts (14) champagnepopo (14) justizin (14) grim (12)
paul98 (12) Rapture (11) omry_ (11) zave (11) ads__ (11)
nicolasbock (10) akkad (10) pidydx (10) ryekayo85 (10) askz (10)
neozaga (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.
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 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
7 interested 63 theWhisper_
8 'kloeri' 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 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...
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 has to run to the gym

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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