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title: February’s reading list
description: 'Here are the best links shared by the design team in February 2017:
  Write Good linter for Atom Land Lines – Chrome Experiments Better Web Typography
  for a Better Web Fast Good Cheap Data Visualizations by Herwig Scherabon How Flexbox
  works—explained with big, colorful, animated gifs Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting
  GitHub’s Open Sourc […]'
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1 March 2017

# February’s reading list

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Here are the best links shared by the design team in February 2017:

1. [Write Good linter for Atom](https://atom.io/packages/linter-write-good)
2. [Land Lines – Chrome Experiments](https://lines.chromeexperiments.com/)
3. [Better Web Typography for a Better Web](https://betterwebtype.com/)
4. [Fast Good Cheap](http://fastgood.cheap/)
5. [Data Visualizations by Herwig Scherabon](http://scherabon.com/filter/Data-Visualization/)
6. [How Flexbox works—explained with big, colorful, animated gifs](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/an-animated-guide-to-flexbox-d280cf6afc35#.8oiifugt6)
7. [Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting](http://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/02/08/syntax-highlighting-optimizations)
8. [GitHub’s Open Source Guides](https://opensource.guide/)
9. [Piwik – Open Analytics Platform](https://piwik.org/)
10. [Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable](http://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp)
11. [Dwitter – 140 character JavaScript](https://www.dwitter.net/)
12. [How Stack Overflow Redesigned the Top Navigation](https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/14/why-stack-overflow-redesigned-the-top-navigation/)

Thank you to [Greg](http://design.canonical.com/author/greg-hale), [Jamie](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamiedawsonyoung), [Joana](http://design.canonical.com/author/joana-sa), [Karl](http://design.canonical.com/author/deadlight), [Magdalena](http://design.canonical.com/author/magdalena-mirowicz), [Will](http://design.canonical.com/author/willmoggridge) and me for the links this month.

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