#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Friday 20 February 2026 - 3:03:28
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
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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"this channel is effectively dead"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"pengin: No, you can just use python_package and whatnot directly"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"my recipe is still running, I wonder if the var went wrong."
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"cheeseplus: this is my code https://pastebin.com/k3CZesbW"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"No other install of ruby is on the server"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"cheeseplus, I figured out the issue I was having yesterday. and i"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"Yep, but how do I install it on the server"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"ya i figured that might be the hack fix"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"cdown: Linux is 4 Niggers!"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"I might have to kill a coworker"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"i don't understand what you're asking"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"rather an blank undefined value"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"Hi ALl, I have a mixture of berks dependencies, and a custom cook"
14 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"k, great. i appreciate it very much."
15 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"just looked back into the logs and it took 36 mins"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"ok thought so but wanted to confirm"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"use say using dns or whatever) Thank you"
18 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"So I need to know what resources I have available"
19 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"And does include_recipes deal with circular dependencies?"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"and with that git-review and haz beer!"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"cool, for now, you're my know-way-better, thanks"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"cant use slack on work computer.. install it on your phone. can s"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"Can I equivalently express that as '>= 12 && < 13'?"
24 pbandark20613130615.396.2206 days ago"https://pastebin.com/8N6BnumZ"
25 _KaszpiR_20201668.347.319 days ago"it is, but mainly at server configuration"


These didn't make it to the top:
deviantlinux (20) __michael (20) Heebie (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) marens (16) drunkenpanda (16) chefuser032 (16) dc (15)
jhujhiti (15) justizin (14) jalberts (14) champagnepopo (14) paul98 (12)
grim (12) ads__ (11) Rapture (11) zave (11) omry_ (11)
ryekayo85 (10) akkad (10) askz (10) pedahzur (10) nicolasbock (10)
neozaga (10) pidydx (10) roshanavand (9) cyberworm54 (9) |aaron (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 staff 112 theWhisper_
3 member 112 theWhisper_
4 cookbook 96 cheeseplus
5 might 70 theWhisper_
6 interested 63 theWhisper_
7 thought 63 theWhisper_
8 'kloeri' 63 theWhisper_
9 Bryan 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 coderanger 4 gavit
5 socomm 4 Armageddon

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...
karatkievich.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 heads out to 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 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.
Total number of lines: 39235.

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