My real name is Matthew Peters.

GitHub required I make a unique username for my account, and after a little bit of thinking I came up with my solution.

My last name ends in an 's', and without that 's' my name is made of 2 common first names (Matt and Peter). I decided to swap my first (abbreviated) name and last name leaving the 's' in its place to get peter + matt + s = petermatts, a unique username.

public static String username() {
    String myName = "Matthew Peters"; //my name
    myName = myName.toLowerCase(); //make lowercase

    //split into an array (first name at index 0, second name at index 1)
    String[] names = myName.split(" "); 

    //create var for first name, using substring to abreviate to an alternative form
    String firstname_short = names[0].substring(0, 4); //matt

    String lastname = names[1]; //create var for last name (peters)
    String s = "";

    //if lastname ends in "s": s="s" and trim off last 's' from lastname
    if(lastname.endsWith("s")) {
        s = "s";
        lastname = lastname.substring(0, lastname.length()-1); //peter
    }

    // my_github_username = "peter" + "matt" + "s"
    String my_github_username = lastname + firstname_short + s;
    return my_github_username; //petermatts
}

1. About Me
2. Repositories
3. Skills
4. Github Stats

• UMass Amherst 2025 M.S. in Computer Science
• UMass Amherst 2024 B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics
• Nashua (New Hampshire) High School North class of 2020

Main educational focus: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

• NFL Football
• Cooking and Baking
• F1
• Cars
• Rubik's cube speed solving
• Other things I can't think of at the moment

• Did you know that on windows the keyboard short cut ctrl+alt+shift+windows+L automattically takes you to LinkedIn in your browser?
• Did you know that Desmos uses Latex? So you can copy a raw Latex formula into desmos without needing to retype the whole thing.
• Did you know that someone took the time and effort to create https://guthib.com incase you accidentally spell github incorrectly?
• If you change the .docx, .pptx, etc. file extension of a microsoft office file and rename the file extension to .zip, you can actually unzip the file into a bunch of .xml files. Essentially all Microsoft Office files are just xml.
• Similarly, Jupyter Notebooks are just JSON under the hood.
• Ever wanted to use ChatGPT but as a cat? Check out CatGPT
• More coming soon

For much greater detail into my past and current projects (both public and private) as well as my future ideas, see Repos.md for more information.

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