#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Saturday 22 November 2025 - 3:03:21
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
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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"it's me and whoever happens to fall in here"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"er, no such thing as global env vars"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"but prefer irc as slack is resource hungry"
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"coderanger: last week you recommended not to do something like ge"
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"The quicker I get this setup working the better"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"and like you say im trying ot jump 2 major revisions"
9 murd3r533502915.528.156 days ago"cdown: Linux is 4 Niggers!"
10 Sammitch5154664212.674.4243 days ago"I'm curious why, when using a hash in a resource definition, I ha"
11 gleam4811373487.241.6109 days ago"just use berkshelf for dependency management"
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"or do you just manually change it in metadata? cheers"
14 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"cheeseplus: thanks for all your help. i appreciate it very much"
15 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"we have a tool that goes through a list and executes a series of"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"cheeseplus: sorry, laptop went to sleep. OS is windows"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"use say using dns or whatever) Thank you"
18 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"So what's a common pattern for that"
19 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"Question about structure within cookbooks,,,"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"could you gist the updated code?"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"Really, just trying not to duplicate data in a databag"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"i could be wrong, but you should still be able to use the cookboo"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"("under 12" meaning "within 12.*.*")"
24 __michael202021310.754.9258 days ago"is there a simple explanation?"
25 Heebie2051555127.6167.0170 days ago"Hello. I'm having difficulty with a data bag. I'm getting a mes"


These didn't make it to the top:
pbandark (20) _KaszpiR_ (20) deviantlinux (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) marens (16) chefuser032 (16) drunkenpanda (16) jhujhiti (15)
dc (15) jalberts (14) justizin (14) champagnepopo (14) grim (12)
paul98 (12) Rapture (11) omry_ (11) zave (11) ads__ (11)
nicolasbock (10) askz (10) neozaga (10) pidydx (10) pedahzur (10)
akkad (10) ryekayo85 (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.
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 member 112 theWhisper_
3 staff 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 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 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.
chipadeedoodah always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
     * chipadeedoodah waves

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 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
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