#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Monday 23 February 2026 - 3:03:31
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"failshell: this channel is effectively dead, see the slack link i"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"Inside your Chef code, poise-python hides that from you"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"Cookbook file has a ruby syntax error:"
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"Same error from just running /opt/chefdk/embedded/bin/chef too"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"let me see what I can find from there then. thanks"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"I've gone ahead with using the managed server, works so far"
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"argh I never remember about slack"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"or is it part of a systemd cookbook"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Hello. I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I'm having troub"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"Hi all, just wondering how to set a default maintainer for cookbo"
14 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"are the logs of this channel stored somewhere?"
15 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"plus i dont really care for yaml-based stuff"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"yeah that's ugly cheeseplus :D"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"CANT I USE CHEF FOR ORCHESTRATION?"
18 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"Question about structure within cookbooks,,,"
19 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"https://bpaste.net/show/b07e6f09535c for this kind of tricks"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"could you gist the updated code?"
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"`chef_version '12'` seems to work, though?"
24 deviantlinux2041642121.1112.5158 days ago"Did knife search change at all? In chef 11 I could just "knife se"
25 _KaszpiR_20201668.347.319 days ago"pagios this barely has anything to do with chef"


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