#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Sunday 19 July 2026 - 3:03:33
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%
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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"failshell: this channel is effectively dead, see the slack link i"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"I think it's like node['lsb']['codename'] or something"
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"i like the idea of push jobs, but doesn't scale very well"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"Ah, so I see from the title =)"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"I've tried 100 different ways"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"I use chef-client::service_systemd in a run_list"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"Hello all, i'm working on migrating my machines from chef-client"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"cdown: Linux is 4 Niggers!"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"hmm that looks like its touching the host's systemd though"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"i don't understand what you're asking"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Is it possible to print out a variable value when I run chef-clie"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"Hi ALl, I have a mixture of berks dependencies, and a custom cook"
14 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"just wondering if anyone would have any advice. I have this cookb"
15 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"is the pricing public or do i have to contact sales?"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"is it possible to do: default['sentinel_config']['common_hostname"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"Heroku i just submit my app, they do the scaling and all for me"
18 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"Is there any mechanism built-in to chef or berksfile that can lis"
19 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"For certificate renewal for example"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"(hope noone kills me for this 'beauty' :D )"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"https://gist.github.com/acqant/a6727368bd900e2a29557ce3168cae1b"
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"Can I equivalently express that as '>= 12 && < 13'?"
24 pbandark20613130615.396.2206 days ago"In cookbook recipe, whats recommended approach to call the attrib"
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) __michael (20) _KaszpiR_ (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) marens (16) chefuser032 (16) drunkenpanda (16) dc (15)
jhujhiti (15) justizin (14) jalberts (14) champagnepopo (14) paul98 (12)
grim (12) omry_ (11) Rapture (11) ads__ (11) zave (11)
neozaga (10) askz (10) pidydx (10) pedahzur (10) nicolasbock (10)
ryekayo85 (10) akkad (10) |aaron (9) roshanavand (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.
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 member 112 theWhisper_
3 staff 112 theWhisper_
4 cookbook 96 cheeseplus
5 might 70 theWhisper_
6 thought 63 theWhisper_
7 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
8 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_
9 interested 63 theWhisper_
10 Ostergaard 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, 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 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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