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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
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16
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14
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12
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29
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21
LLM Fundamentals
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C# Fundamentals
20
Object-Oriented Programming in C#
16
C# Collections and Generics
11
LINQ
17
Asynchronous Programming in C#
17
Advanced C#
14
C# Versions
6
Solution Patterns
22
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DevOps
PART 09
Git Merge: Fast-forward, Three-way Merge and the Merge Commit
We see with real output the difference between fast-forward and three-way merge, the role of the common ancestor (git merge-base), the inside of a two-parent merge commit, the --no-ff and --ff-only options, the ort strategy that has been the default since Git 2.34, and cleaning up branches after a merge.
6 Nov 2026
8 min
8
DevOps
PART 08
Git Branch: A Movable Pointer, HEAD and git switch
We see with real output that a branch is a 41-byte file holding a single commit hash, how HEAD works, listing, renaming and deleting with git branch, moving around with git switch and switch -c, getting into and out of detached HEAD, and the old use of git checkout.
6 Nov 2026
9 min
8