Blog
Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
Series
.NET Core Web API
36
Angular
31
JavaScript Basics
19
JavaScript Intermediate
18
JavaScript Advanced
16
TypeScript Basics
14
TypeScript Intermediate
14
TypeScript Advanced
12
Entity Framework Core
28
Dapper
16
Git & GitHub
29
Web Security (OWASP Top 10)
21
LLM Fundamentals
20
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
DevOps
PART 25
Git Hooks and Commit Signing: From pre-commit to SSH Signatures
We write pre-commit and commit-msg hooks with real output, share them with the team through core.hooksPath, and try Git 2.54's config-based hooks and git hook list. Then we sign commits with an SSH key, verify them with an allowed signers file and look at what GitHub's Verified badge requires.
6 Nov 2026
11 min
15
DevOps
PART 13
Connecting to GitHub: HTTPS, Personal Access Tokens and SSH
From creating a repo on GitHub to the first push: why passwords stopped working in 2021, fine-grained versus classic personal access tokens, how credential helpers work, ed25519 SSH keys, gh auth login and transfer.credentialsInUrl, which catches tokens embedded in URLs.
6 Nov 2026
10 min
11