#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Monday 13 October 2025 - 3:03:25
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
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1516
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1457
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1433
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1205
3.6%
1425
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1292
3.7%
1452
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1529
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1274
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1320
3.8%
1490
4.1%
1591
4.7%
1831
5.1%
1992
4.9%
1932
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2279
5.1%
2018
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2103
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1907
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1961
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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"JediMaster: execute is right unless you want to manage every file"
2 coderanger18752315717969.655.34 days ago"If it's RHEL-related, it defaults to using SCL"
3 gavit92132752111812.272.1101 days ago"Thanks. Didnt realize I could escape them"
4 tombin812358108613.475.072 days ago"cheeseplus: this is my code https://pastebin.com/k3CZesbW"
5 JediMaster77272426122215.994.931 days ago"Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 today"
6 CableNinja76670114115.081.7129 days ago"live_blkid keeps ending up blank"
7 savantgarde64135174311.664.6261 days ago"The quicker I get this setup working the better"
8 rkeiii5850872412.567.2333 days ago"anyone happen to know how the chef core systemd_unit handles path"
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"i believe node. notation is deprecated"
12 socomm42113150712.169.4169 days ago"Do I need a validation pem file, if I move my workstation files t"
13 Gobo7083523349414.178.8241 days ago"or do you just manually change it in metadata? cheers"
14 d1rewolf34191565019.1106.6165 days ago"compared to using simply the OSS pieces"
15 gilfoyle34822479223.3129.232 days ago"e.g depends 'foo' if node['bar']"
16 bmurt315262859.259.026 days ago"is it possible to do: default['sentinel_config']['common_hostname"
17 pagios292937813.068.3169 days ago"_KaszpiR_, can i use kubernetes?"
18 yo612862228310.158.7222 days ago"And does include_recipes deal with circular dependencies?"
19 Pepe_2822642715.283.9114 days ago"So I need to know what resources I have available"
20 double-p271262639.762.1101 days ago"we do something like this to create powerdns SQL files"
21 acqant_25252379.555.5103 days ago"https://gist.github.com/acqant/a6727368bd900e2a29557ce3168cae1b"
22 miah2421327911.665.453 days ago"inspec is great at auditing servers, or validating your chef"
23 rora232347220.5117.8310 days ago"`chef_version '12'` seems to work, though?"
24 _KaszpiR_20201668.347.319 days ago"pagios this barely has anything to do with chef"
25 __michael202021310.754.9258 days ago"is there a simple explanation?"


These didn't make it to the top:
deviantlinux (20) pbandark (20) Heebie (20) TechIsCool (19) Armageddon (18)
pengin (17) drunkenpanda (16) marens (16) chefuser032 (16) jhujhiti (15)
dc (15) champagnepopo (14) jalberts (14) justizin (14) grim (12)
paul98 (12) ads__ (11) omry_ (11) zave (11) Rapture (11)
askz (10) neozaga (10) akkad (10) pedahzur (10) ryekayo85 (10)
nicolasbock (10) pidydx (10) roshanavand (9) |aaron (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 Bryan 63 theWhisper_
7 thought 63 theWhisper_
8 interested 63 theWhisper_
9 Ostergaard 63 theWhisper_
10 'kloeri' 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.
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
The topic was set 2 times.
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