What's the deal with this?

I hear you... "Vinney, you claim to be some kind of programmer by trade - why does your website look like it's either broken or was made by a total amateur?"

If you actually want to hear me go on about this, here you go:

• This is what content looks like by default when it's rendered by a web browser and not styled much. It seems people have forgotten this fact and this type of appearance is considered unacceptable. As websites do more, user interfaces grow in complexity and the baseline for visual appearance keeps rising. I think it's refreshing to be reminded what this looks like.
• Purpose. The purpose of this site is to display the different information you see here. The purpose is narrow and ends exactly right there. It is absolutely accomplished with exactly as much styling as is being used (just enough for margins, basically).

If you came here wondering about the actual construction of this site itself, here's that:

This is a sinatra site with no database. I maintain a few .yml file for "news" and "interest topics" which are pulled in to the home and currently pages. If I find I want to write a lot more about a topic, I can add another key to its yaml entry and it'll have a separate 'more details' page generated for it. So far I haven't had enough thoughts for that yet. This single yaml file is essentially the only CMS I need and is really easy to work with if I want to quickly make some updates without writing markup.
It's sort of like a homegrown micro-jekyll static site generator.