#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Tuesday 15 July 2025 - 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
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"zave: the gui itself isn't relevant but it's not best practice to"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"pengin: No, you can just use python_package and whatnot directly"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"environment 'MESSAGE' => 'Hello from the execute resource'"
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"ohai chefs, I have a resource that sets a node attribute with nod"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"The above error comes from the call to "chef shell-init bash""
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"I've also tried shell_out().stdout"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"Besides, our client is waiting for us to finish"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"the core stuff was based on that cookbook?"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"anyone in the seattle area looking to commit suicide"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"hmm that looks like its touching the host's systemd though"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"ah i've never used berks package"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Does the apt_package action :lock install the package if not pres"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"Disregard, it was a bad path"
14 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"I can't seem to find clear information anywhere, but.. is it poss"
15 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"plus i dont really care for yaml-based stuff"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"sorry, chef_version=13.4.19"
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"Aha, I can parse that out of the graph in Berksfile.lock"
19 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"So what's a common pattern for that"
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"Really, just trying not to duplicate data in a databag"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"coderanger: i used to use fetch with node attributes, but its bee"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"("under 12" meaning "within 12.*.*")"
24 pbandark20613130615.396.2206 days ago"Hi.. I have set attribute in the recipe(cookbooks/apache/recipes/"
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) Heebie (20) deviantlinux (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) marens (16) drunkenpanda (16) chefuser032 (16) jhujhiti (15)
dc (15) justizin (14) jalberts (14) champagnepopo (14) grim (12)
paul98 (12) zave (11) ads__ (11) Rapture (11) omry_ (11)
neozaga (10) askz (10) nicolasbock (10) ryekayo85 (10) pedahzur (10)
pidydx (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 staff 112 theWhisper_
3 member 112 theWhisper_
4 cookbook 96 cheeseplus
5 might 70 theWhisper_
6 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_
7 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
8 interested 63 theWhisper_
9 thought 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 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.
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
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