Because your grandma's basement isn't just a basement, but a war room.
Here you'll find the most stylish, yet utterly useless, tips for the modern hacker:
When in doubt, wear a bright yellow t-shirt, preferably with a picture of a cat on it, to distract from your lack of actual hacking skills.
When minimalist design is too boring, learn about the 17 different ways you can style a basic HTML table, but don't actually make it look nice, just... interesting.
When in doubt, practice your skills by hacking together a website that looks like it was designed by a blind person in a dark room.